He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.

He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the
minutes.
[Ger., Was man von der Minute read more

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the
minutes.
[Ger., Was man von der Minute ausgeslagen
Gibt keine Ewigkeit zuruck.]

Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some read more

Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd,
Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
The speed that spins the future and the past:
And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
Awful eternity shall reign alone.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can read more

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
Up between two eternities!

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise
Up between two eternities!

Eternity forbids thee to forget.

Eternity forbids thee to forget.