Gone Quotes - Page 39

• Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Age, Faster

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• That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Thinking, Inquiry

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.406

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• Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Habit, Occasional

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• When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.

  Mason Cooley

  Hope, Home, Self

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• Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

  Mason Cooley

  Opportunity, Luck, Begging

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• Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Pleasure, Sour

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• Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way. We articulate the truth of a situation by carrying the whole experience in the voice and allowing the process to blossom of its own accord. Out of the cross-grain of experience appears a voice that not only sums up the process we have gone through, but allows the soul to recognize in its timbre, the color, texture, and complicated entanglements of being alive.

  David Whyte

  Adversity, Color, Voice

  David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.93, Crown Business

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• Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Strive, Certain

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• If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

  Mason Cooley

  Air, Noses, Where You Are

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• In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Naked, Littles

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• The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Possibility, Righteous

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• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  Ida Tarbell

  Strong, Real, Mistake

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• City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Venice, Should Have, Cities

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• Our troubles keep us going.

  Mason Cooley

  Trouble

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• I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stupid, Apology, Sick

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• The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Regret, Past, Men

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• In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.

  Haile Selassie

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Community

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• Now the last red ray is gone;
  Now the twilight shadows hie.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Twilight, Shadow, Rays

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• I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Grace, Black

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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• That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowledge, Eye, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8238, Delphi Classics

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• A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.

  Mary Blakely

  Suicide, Teacher, Children

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• Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Civilization, Mind, Progress

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• That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Needs, Down And

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• It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.

  Steven A. Cohen

  Real, Ideas, Investing

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• I think it's gone much too far. Most of them are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.

  John C. Bogle

  Blow, Thinking, Investing

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