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“Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.”

Term Journey Feet Eternity Odd Forks

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Before We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us, But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not Enter their profane temples; and for me To hope my passage to eternity Can be made easy, till I have shook off The burthen of my sins in free confession, Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them, Is against reason.”

Should Made Ends Reason Hands Easy Sin Behinds Feet Fit Sorrow Eternity Corruption Temples Repentance Passages Confession Foul Pilgrimage Profane Heathen

Book:The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

“There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.”

“Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.”

Needs Hands Path Feet Greatness Fame Eternity Lips

Author:Philip Larkin

“It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.”

Should Littles Would Be Law Animal Five Feet Planets Eternal Eternity Contempt Caprice

Book:The Complete Romances of Voltaire

Source: The Complete Romances of Voltaire

“You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper!”

Knows Looks Jesus Christ Feet Judgment Jesus Christ Eternity Shame Riches Seats Bows Humiliation

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.”

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.”

Play Seems Christian Lost Race Feet Blessing Eternity Good Things Circles Christian Life Borders March Ashes Thorns Straws Chastisement

Book:Letters, Now Divided Into Three Parts: The First Containing Those which Were Written from Aberdeen

Source: Letters, Now Divided Into Three Parts: The First Containing Those which Were Written from Aberdeen

“Inactives-those whose feet are not placed on the path which leads to eternal life.”

Life Path Feet Eternal Eternity Eternal Life

Author:Jacob de Jager

“...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!”