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Present Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
- What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our…
- We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall…
- The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
- The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
- In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the…
- Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the…
- Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy…
- The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we…
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- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
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