“ But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time. ”
- Meister Eckhart- Copy
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“ Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. ”
- Nagarjuna- Copy
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“ Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? ”
- George Gissing- Copy
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“ He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life. ”
- St. Thomas Aquinas- Copy
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“ Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. ”
- Lance Armstrong- Copy
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“ Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and the temporal. ”
- Mary Baker Eddy- Copy
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“ This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions. ”
- Siddha Nagarjuna- Copy
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“ When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. ”
- Saint Augustine- Copy
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“ When composers say that music is a temporal art, I think that's true, but what is most fun in music is when you know that there are connections that are non-temporal. You can compare them with the unfolding of the piece again - you can compare the drama of the unfolding with the relationships that you remember. ”
- Robert Morris- Copy
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“ It is amazing that our souls — our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world — are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition. ”
- Marion Woodman- Copy
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“ Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. ”
- St. Francis De Sales- Copy
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“ The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. ”
- John Ashcroft- Copy
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