Victor Hugo Quotes, Past Quotes, Reign Quotes

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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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

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

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Past Quotes , Influence 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

I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Pride Quotes , Past Quotes

Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Past Quotes , Two Quotes

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Past Quotes , Majesty Quotes

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Past Quotes , Today Quotes

It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Past Quotes , Greek Quotes

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Past Quotes , Events 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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Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Past Quotes , Waiting Quotes

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

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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

Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Past Quotes , Medicine Quotes

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Brother Quotes , Past Quotes

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Past Quotes

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

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