Passed Away Quotes - Page 9

• Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

  Subramanya Bharathi

  Time, Past, Looks

  "The People's Poet" by N. Nandhivarman to "TamilSydney", www.sangam.org. January 7, 2008.

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• In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

  Ouida

  Death, Animal, Agony

  Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”

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• The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.

  Hugh Miller

  Future, Science, Men

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed”, p.178

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