For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

Alexander Pope
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The...
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About This Quote

For he lives twice who can at once employ,The present well, and e’en the past enjoy` is a line from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." The phrase is used to describe the ability of one person to simultaneously focus on the present and the past.

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  1. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

  2. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

  3. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

  4. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

  5. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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