Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Fall Quotes, Past Quotes

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

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It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Life Quotes , Past Quotes

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Death Quotes , Past Quotes

I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Men Quotes

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

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And right action is freedom From past and future also.

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

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Past Quotes

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Artist Quotes , Past Quotes

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Memories Quotes , Past Quotes

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Past Quotes , Ethical Principles Quotes

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

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

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Past Quotes

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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