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“All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined”

World Past Creation Buddhism All Time Other Worlds Past Present Past Present And Future Times Past

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.”

Past Materials Noble Times Past

Author:Jean Froissart

“Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.”

Age Past Joy Praise Times Past

Author:Robert Herrick

“It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.”

Thinking Sometimes Past Used Interesting Wonder Wall Used To Be Times Past

Author:Patrick Geddes

“May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this ought not to produce great and universal alarm? Whether a rigid execution of such an act, in time past, would not have repressed that information and communication among the people which is indispensable to the just exercise of their electoral rights? And whether such an act, if made perpetual, and enforced with rigor, would not, in time to come, either destroy our free system of government, or prepare a convulsion that might prove equally fatal to it?”

Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution

“When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.”

Has Beens Different Self Past Habit Impression Enthusiasm Former Instant Intensity Fades Sensibility Vivid Stimulus Momentary Drunkards Insignificance Times Past

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

“It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.”

Needs Persons Art Philosophy Today Past Nations Deals History Resources Seven These Days Sage Greece Single Person Times Past

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?”

Action Past Evil Atheism Positive Atheism Criminals Shameful Times Past

Author:Lucretius

“Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.”

Past Deprived Times Past

Author:Aristotle

“The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.”

Stills Ends Past Father Jesus Speak Christ Bible Height Prophet Testament Unseen Fog New Testament Saviour Daylight Times Past

Author:John Milton

“time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined along the route by more and more characters none of whom could be separated from one another or from the host, with some stuck so fast that their presence caused physical pain.”

Character Pain Past Gone Stuck Host Routes Fairytale Physical Pain Times Past

Book:To the is-land: an autobiography

Source: To the is-land: an autobiography

“I am 46, and have been for some time past.”

Has Beens Age Past Times Past

Author:Anita Brookner

“Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.”

Past Purpose Worthy Rational Progression Times Past

Book:Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed

Source: Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed

“the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.”

Long Past Happened Havens Long Time Flicker Times Past

Author:Estela Portillo Trambley

“The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.”

Past Quality Particular Intention Photograph Pathos Times Past

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.”

Giving Use Past Worship Praise Dues Times Past

Author:Ovid

“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.”

Men World Years Earth Past Time Order Hours Sleep Broken Circles Thread Arousal Times Past

Author:Marcel Proust