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• The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.

  Rajneesh

  Time, Past, Two

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• Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Young, Universal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.388, Library of America

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• With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Sight, Views, Horizon

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2009). “The Uncalled (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

  Boris Pasternak

  Hostage, Mines, Captives

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Shallow Person, Silence

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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• Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

  Agatha Christie

  Literature

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• Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

  Michael Korda

  Action, Moments, Wells

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• So this is it. Match point for eternity.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Match Point

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• Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Disappointment, Dividing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.169, 谷月社

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• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Beauty, Time

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, World, Today

  "The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".

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• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Lying, Silence

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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• Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cutting, Thinking, Long

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

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• What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

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• A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Moving, Body, Retarded

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.116, University of Chicago Press

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• The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Heart, Important

  Guideposts, January 1960.

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• No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

  Frederic Farrar

  Men

  Frederic William Farrar (1895). “Farrar Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rev. Frederic W. Farrar ...”

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• I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

  Michael Servetus

  Progressive, Incidents, Discussion

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• I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Writing, Feelings, Want

  "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004". Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
  [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

  Lucretius

  Eternal, Universe

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• But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Philosophy, Religion, Provinces

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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• Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

  Herman Melville

  Hope, Struggle, Soul

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• Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of eternity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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