“ I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, — "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — Solitude is sweet. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. ”
- Diane Ackerman- Copy
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“ The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character. ”
- Vince Gill- Copy
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“ I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. ”
- Mike Todd- Copy
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“ The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ I believe that human civilization is passing through an era of great transformation. ”
- John Jenkins- Copy
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“ I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. ”
- Baruch Spinoza- Copy
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“ In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. ”
- Francis Schaeffer- Copy
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“ The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? ”
- Chuang tzu- Copy
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“ Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing. ”
- Martin Buber- Copy
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“ We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. ”
- Robert Pirsig- Copy
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“ O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young. ”
- William Morris- Copy
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“ I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
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“ In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ It still comes as something of a shock to say that word 'we' in the absence brought by Peter's passing. ”
- Dan Rather- Copy
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“ Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ”
- Walter Landor- Copy
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“ Is she not passing fair? - The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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