“I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.”
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: On his appointment as Prime Minister, May 10, 1940; The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948).
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Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.xi
“Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Book III, Ode 29, lines 69–72.
Imitation of Horace (1685)
Context: Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine,
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XV - An Apparition
Context: I think of myself, of all that I am. Myself, my home, my hours; the past, and the future, — it was going to be like the past! And at that moment I feel, weeping within me and dragging itself from some little bygone trifle, a new and tragical sorrow in dying, a hunger to be warm once more in the rain and the cold: to enclose myself in myself in spite of space, to hold myself back, to live.
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
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