As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
William ShakespeareRead
O, call back yesterday, bid time return
Interpretation
This quote expresses a longing to return to the past and undo the events that have occurred.
In this quote from Shakespeare, the speaker yearns for the ability to go back in time and revisit moments that have passed, indicating a deep desire to correct mistakes or relive cherished experiences. It reflects the human condition of nostalgia and the wish to change the course of events that have led to current circumstances, highlighting the tension between time and human agency.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of learning from our past mistakes.
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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