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Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
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human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
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Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowing ...
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptac ...
But blest is he, who, playing deep, yet haply asks not why,
Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
The vanishing volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every mom ...
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 fo ...
But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments to the past, or, heedless of the ri ...
Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, a ...
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
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