The present will not long endure.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Learn what you are and be such.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

The test of any man lies in action.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

The present will not long endure.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

The best of healers is good cheer.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Every gift which is given even though it be small is in reality great if it is given with affection.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Strive not, my soul, for immortal life, but make the most of the possibilities open to you.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

Water is the best of all things.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

All this happens without him knowing - they actually install cameras in his apartment and hire this girl to get him to fall in love with her so that she can be in the apartment and present him products without him knowing.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

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

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.