Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched. Goethe.

The present holds in it both the whole past and the whole future. Carlyle.

The present is the only reality and the only 10 certainty. Schopenhauer.

The present moment is a potent divinity. Goethe.

The present moment is our ain, / The neist we never saw. Burns.

The present time is not priest-ridden, but press-ridden. Longfellow.

The present time, youngest born of eternity, child and heir of all the past times with their good and evil, and parent of all the future, is ever a new era to the thinking man. Carlyle.

The press beginneth to be an oppression of the 15 land. Fuller.

The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Bryant.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. Colton.