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• There 's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassa...
• But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassa...
• Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassa...
• The best prophet of the future is the past.
• One life,--a little gleam of time between two Eternities.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as a Man of Lette...
• Many times man lives and dies Between his two eternities.
  -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Under Ben Bulben" (1936-1939)...
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. -- Thomas Jefferso