Saint Augustine Quotes, Past Quotes, Moved On Quotes

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

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Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Past Quotes , May Quotes

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Past Quotes , Strange Quotes

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Past Quotes , Looks Quotes

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Past Quotes , Giving Quotes

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Past Quotes , Bores You Quotes

What is past is prologue.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Food Quotes , Past Quotes

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Past Quotes , Mourning Quotes

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.

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Tags : A. O. Scott Quotes , Eye Quotes , Past Quotes

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Past Quotes , One Day Quotes

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Past Quotes , Hints Quotes

Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , War Quotes , Past Quotes

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

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Tags : Ada Leverson Quotes , Past Quotes , Wells Quotes

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

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Tags : Alan Dundes Quotes , Taken Quotes , Past Quotes

I'm very inspired by past music.

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Tags : Adam Lambert Quotes , Past Quotes , Inspired Quotes

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Past Quotes , Scene Quotes

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Past Quotes , Shoes Quotes