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Passing Quotes - Page 6

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

Bai Li (1922). “The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet”

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

"The Histories. Book 7". Book by Herodotus, Ch. 10, c. 440 BC.

Death is only passing through God's other door.

Edgar Cayce, Association for Research and Enlightenment (1976). “Individual reference file of extracts from the Edgar Cayce readings”

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.

Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.194, D & M Publishers

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.335