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Nicholas of Cusa Quotes: Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.
         

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.


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