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Age of Enlightenment3 quotes
All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. — Edward Gibbon · 1789Nae man can tether time or tide. — Robert Burns · 1791Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. — Edmund Burke · 1777The Renaissance3 quotes
That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. — Francis Bacon · 1604The withered primrose by the mourning river,
The faded summer’s sun from weeping fountains,
The light-blown bubble vanished for ever,
The molten snow upon the naked mountains,
Are emblems that the treasures we up-lay
Soon wither, vanish, fade, and melt away. — Edmund Bolton · 1600But times do change and move continually. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1599Classical antiquity2 quotes
One cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters are continually flowing on. — HeraclitusEverything flows and nothing stays. — Heraclitus · 348 BCEarly Christianity1 quote
Every day were are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. — St. Jerome · 396