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“Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance”

Life Lasts Time Taken Minutes Wind Equal Flow Eternity Importance Chains Time Passing Petals Time Passes Life Time Old Life

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present storeNo line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.”

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.”

Hands Form Evil Hope Heaven Pleasure Forever Taken Honor Degrees Eternity Endure Riches Absence Enjoyment Crowns Wreaths

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!”

Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

“For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.”

Knows Reason Seems Lasts Taken Events Eternity Occasions Significance Earnest Avenues Slippery

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.”

Soul Life Is Taken Subjects Prove Eternal Eternity Ruins Eternal Life

Book:Spiritual Gifts Vol 1 & 2

Source: Spiritual Gifts Vol 1 & 2

“You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”

People Men Should Years Mind Long Doe Reason Enough Moments Young Values Taken Jokes Hundred Eternity Mere Injustice Accidents Young Man Old People Seriousness

Book:Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.”

Long Death Lying Christ Taken Arms Terrible Husband Mercy Eternity Casts Merit My Husband

Author:Donald Cargill

“We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you think your side have got, eh? First grade, I mean." Aziraphale looked taken aback. "Well, I should think-" he began. "Two," said Crowley. "Elgar and Liszt. That's all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?”

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.”

Moving Time Taken Possibility Eternity Explanation Traveled Momentum Reprieve Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Book:Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

“He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.”

Ends Philosophy Form Taken All Things Eternity Philosophical

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.”

May Christian Taken Eternity Disappointment Christian Inspirational Trust In God Doomed Trust Yourself

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilities and joys of fatherhood. Whether our fathers are near at hand or a continent away, with their families or watching from the light of eternity, we take this day to remember them, to say our thanks for the years they have given us, and to ask that they receive God's blessings.”

Years Hands Light Remember Joy Asks Father Given Pay Taken Blessing Eternity Thanks Our Society This Day Continents Fatherhood Our Father Tribute Day To Remember

Author:Ronald Reagan