James Joyce Quotes, Lasts Quotes, Firsts Quotes

If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

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It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

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So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

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First and last follow each other.

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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

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Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

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We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

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I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

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All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and perish. Mahomed himself never pretended that the Koran was the last message of God and there would be no other. God and Truth outlast these religions and manifest themselves anew in whatever way or form the Divine Wisdom chooses.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Lasts Quotes