Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Past Quotes, Mirrors Quotes

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

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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

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Past Quotes , Moments Quotes

She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.

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

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Past Quotes , Soul Quotes

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Past Quotes , Usual Quotes

I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Past Quotes

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Past Quotes , Equality Quotes

There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

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

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Past Quotes , Night Quotes

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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

The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Past Quotes , World Quotes

The past is but the past of a beginning.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Past Quotes

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Listening Quotes

The Great Morning which is for all, rises in the East.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Morning Quotes , Past Quotes

A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Past Quotes , Long Quotes

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Past Quotes , Self Quotes