Quote by Paul Eldridge
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. - Pa

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge

Other quotes by Paul Eldridge

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. – Paul Eldridge

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Life
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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. – Paul Eldridge

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Epitaphs
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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. – Paul Eldridge

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Jealousy
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Other Quotes from
Past
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Words of snow, which fell last year. – German saying

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Past

We need not destroy the past. It is gone. – John Cage

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Past

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Past

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

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Past

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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. – John Stuart Mill

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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. – John Milton

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. – Mason Cooley

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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. – Umberto Eco

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