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“You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost”

Doe Past Young Lost Secret Generations Creation Hungry Ruins Mock

Book:Epigrams and Aphorisms

Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms

“Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.”

Past Ruins Ruined

Author:Ellen Gilchrist

“Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.”

Feels Mind Past Spirit Force Mountain Ruins Legends Irresistible Recollection Stirring Irresistible Force

Book:Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

Source: Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

“When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.”

Thinking Should Mind Whole Past Support Clear Sky Building One Day Foundation Structure Ruins Palaces Dharma Builder

Author:Christmas Humphreys

“Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.”

Heart Past Purpose Natural Ruins Mask Ivy

Book:God's Grandeur

Source: God's Grandeur

“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.”

Ifs World Ends Seems Past Rich Century Periods Curiosity Ruins Apartment End Of The World Gothic Renaissance Cabinets Antiquity Predicaments

Author:Alfred de Musset

“In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.”

Age Past Acceptance Corruption Ruins Endurance Captured Depravity

Book:Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

Source: Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts

“Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.”

Thinking Men May Littles Has Beens Philosophy Past Force Grows Virtue My Friends Gains Dignity Bravery Senses Ruins Association Indifferent Marathon Piety Envied Frigid

Author:Samuel Johnson