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“Language is the only homeland.
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Miłosz Czesław
People
People connected with this theme.
Quotes
Selected words connected with this theme.
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“Take courage, my friend; tomorrow may be a better day for you.”
Theocritus
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“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Fontaine
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“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.)”
Fontaine
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“I know what the caged bird feels, alas!”
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“Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?”
Aeschylus
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“ Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. ”
Pericles
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“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Will Durant
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“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.”
Hypatia
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“No mortal man is wise at all moments.
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Gaius Plinius
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“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. ”
Sandburg Carl
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Orwell George
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“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
Goethe
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“And die of nothing but from rage to live.
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Pope, Alexander
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“You may forget but let me tell you
this: someone in some future time,
will think of us.
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Sappho
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“The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
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Thucydides
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“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
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Horace
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“Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.”
Williams Tennessee
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“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves”
Crevel Rene
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
Eliot Thomas
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Chanel
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“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Joyce James
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“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
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Trotsky Leon
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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
London Jack
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“Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
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Richelieu
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“To see a World in a Grain of Sand <br>
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower <br>
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand<br>
And Eternity in an hour. <br>”
Blake William
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“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
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Presley Elvis
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“Always the perfect, unworthy lover
of the endless voyage and azure ocean”
Kavvadias
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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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Khayyam Omar
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“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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Berlioz Hector
Book Excerpts
Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
In Search of Lost Time
Proust Marcel
Volume I Swann's Way
(first pages)
Overture
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say “I’m going to sleep.” An …
XII. On Old Age
Seneca
1. Wherever I turn, I see evidences of my advancing years. I visited lately my coun- try-place, and protested against the money which was spent on the tumble-down building. My bailiff maintained that the flaws were not d …
In Search of Lost Time
Proust Marcel
From the final volume,
*Time Regained*,
[...]
"So many times in my life reality had disappointed me, because at the very moment I perceived it, my imagination—the only instrument through which I could delight in bea …
Poems
Selected poems connected with this theme.
Sunstone
Paz Octavio · 1957
(The Opening Verses) — Modern English Adaptation
A crystal willow, a poplar made of water,
a tall fountain bending beneath the wind,
a tree with deep roots that never stops dancing,
a river that twists and keeps mo …
Ozymandias
Shelley Percy · 1818
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer …
Khayyam Omar
Rubaiyat
1
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
2
Dreaming when Dawn's Left …
Everness
Borges · 1975
Only one thing does not exist: oblivion.
God, who saves the metal and the dross,
encodes within the prophetic memory
moons that will be and have already been.
It's all there. Thousands of reflections
that, between …
The Mirabeau Bridge
Apollinaire · 1912
Modern English Translation (AI)
Beneath Mirabeau Bridge the Seine keeps flowing,
carrying with it the memory of our love.
Must I still remember
how every sorrow was followed by joy?
Let night arrive, let the clo …
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Frost Robert · 1923
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Ozymandias
Shelley Percy · 1818
(Modern English Adaptation)
I met a traveler who had returned from an ancient land.
He told me, "Two enormous stone legs stand alone in the desert. Nearby, half buried in the sand, lies the shattered face of a stat …
Mirror
Plath Sylvia
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
What ever you see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted
by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful--- The eye of a little god, fourcornered.
Most of the …
Age Thirty-Five
Tarancı Sıtkı · 1946
Thirty-five years old! Half the journey gone.
Like Dante, we stand midway through life.
The vigor of our youth —
in vain today we beg it, in vain we call —
departs without a thought for our tears.
Has snow fallen …