Present Quotes

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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. — Bertrand Russell
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great… — George Eliot
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. — Peter Drucker
God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end. — David Hume
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that… — Charles Caleb Colton
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is… — Epicurus
There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it… — Cesar Chavez
In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly… — Albert Einstein
Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future. — Elie Wiesel
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel de Montaigne
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson
The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis. — Benjamin Disraeli

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