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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity. (Quote by - Leo the Great)

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. (Quote by - Seneca)

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)

Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Eternity's a terrible thought. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. (Quote by - Hermann Hesse)

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. (Quote by - Lord Baron Mancroft)

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. (Quote by - David Gilmour)

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities! (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Eternity is really long, especially near the end (Quote by - Woody Allen)

Eternity forbids thee to forget. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. (Quote by - Edith Cavell)

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. (Quote by - Norman Fitzroy Maclean)

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. (Quote by - Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand. (Quote by - Robert Stuart MacArthur)

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. (Quote by - Eugene Ionesco)

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. (Quote by - Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

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