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Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!
This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there
The columns of the heavenly palaces.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: The Tomb
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The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Works (vol. III, p. 143), (Bohn's edition)
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Lara (canto I, st. 23)
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Source: Davideis (bk. I)
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
Up between two eternities!
Author: Abraham Cowley
Source: Ode on Life and Fame (l. 18)
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity
is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short
parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as
it is, though time had never been.
Author: Dr. John Donne
Source: Devotions (XIV, Meditation)
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I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Author: Dr. John Donne
Source: Devotions (XIV, Meditation)
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the
universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
Author: Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
Source: De Rerum Natura (III, 817)
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through
it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over
rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are
timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of
the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.
Author: Norman Fitzroy Maclean
Source: A River Runs Through It
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That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 13)
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(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 13)
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This speck of life in time's great wilderness
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and
that is eternity.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
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The time will come when every change shall cease,
This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;
Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now shall ever last.
Author: Francesco Petrarch
Source: Triumph of Eternity (l. 117)
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Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd,
Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
The speed that spins the future and the past:
And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
Awful eternity shall reign alone.
Author: Francesco Petrarch
Source: Triumph pf Eternity (l. 102)
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Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the
minutes.
[Ger., Was man von der Minute ausgeslagen
Gibt keine Ewigkeit zuruck.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Resignation (st. 18)
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Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Adonais (LII)
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The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like Heaven is bent,
An early but enduring monument,
Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song
In sorrow.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Adonais (XXX)
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In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: The "How" and the "Why"
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And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night I, l. 66)
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With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Source: None
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To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
Author: William Blake
Source: None
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Source: None
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He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Author: Brigitte Bardot
Source: None
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Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: None
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The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.
Author: Thomas Browne
Source: None
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Author: Bette Davis
Source: None
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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Author: Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Source: None
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