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duration
«True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
duration, elixir, elixirs, endures, enduring
«To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low»
«This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.»
Author: Thomas Traherne
(Mystic, Poet)
| Keywords:
duration, everlasting, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, region, The Everlasting, wherein
«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
astonished, Before and After, duration, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, frightened, immensity, swallowed
«Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
apparently, damage, duration, elaboration, electric, electric light, enjoys, lightning, vivid