Quotes about Continuity

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

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Saint Augustine said that the New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New.

No sooner are some false prophets put down than others pop up in all directions.

Yesternight the sun went hence,And yet is here today.