Pastoral Resources

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Make a good use of the present.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Conscience is God present in man.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.