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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity. – Matthew Ryan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun. – Arthur Rimbaud	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. – Marie Beyon Ray	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Eternity is very long, especially towards the end. – Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. – Frances Watkins Harper	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. – Lord Acton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end. – Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. – William Blake	added by anonymous 13 years ago
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. – Edvard Munch	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then. – Blaise Pascal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A dreamer lives for eternity. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity. – Edwin Markham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity – John Ballantine Gough	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience here's the place to have the experience. – Joseph Campbell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time. – Johannes Meister Eckhart	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. – William Blake	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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