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  • For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now istheaccepted time; behold, now isthe dayof salvation.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians 6:2.

  •    Or say that the end precedes the beginning, And the end and the beginning were always there before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.5.

  • Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

  • Immortality will cometosuch as are fit for it, and he who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

    - RalphWaldo Emerson
      The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

  • Nunc est bibendum! Now is the time to drink!

    -Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
    Odes, bk.1, no.37, l.1.

  • Never anticipate tomorrow's sorrow; Live always in this paradisal now.

    - Omar Khayya m
    c.1100  Ruba  iya  t, stanza 21 (translated by Robert Graves and Omar  Ali-Shah,1972).

  • We have†come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.

    - Martin LutherJr King
      Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28  Aug, during the March on Washington.

  • Now what?

    -William Saroyan
      Last words.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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