| When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author:
Blavatsky, H. P.Era:
1831 |
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| God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author:
Butler, SamuelEra:
1835 |
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| Study the past, if you would divine the future. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. -- I Ching |
| Author:
Ching, IEra:
-1150 |
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| Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice re- viewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turn-ed aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What haveI left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. -- François La Rochefoucauld |
| Author:
La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; nor can the hour which has gone by return. -- Ovid |
| Author:
OvidEra:
-43 |
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| If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. -- Baruch Spinoza |
| Author:
Spinoza, BaruchEra:
1632 |
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