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• Give a Little Bit has a wonderful message and makes people light up and I get them to sing with me. It really has a message that is very eternal and is needed even more today than it was when I wrote it when I was 19.

  Roger Hodgson

  Light, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Roger Hodgson from Oct 14, 2011

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• Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

  Rose Macaulay

  Passion, Law, Conflict

  Rose Macaulay, Constance Babington Smith (2011). “Letters to a Friend”, p.173, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Music waves eternal wands,--
  Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Music, Soul, Wave

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.122

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• Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Life, Stars, Kindness

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Tis the eternal law,
  That first in beauty should be first in might.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Law, Might

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• Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail,
  Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay;
  Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil
  Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play
  In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
  To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll;
  The temple of the Power whom all obey,
  That is the mark we tend to, for the soul
  Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

  James Gates Percival

  Play, Goal, Car

  James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322

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• There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Speaks Out, Wish

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.196

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• There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Tradition, Eternal Life, Originals

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.146

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• Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

  Eric Hoffer

  Individual, Identification, Process

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright!
  Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
  Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
  And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

  Joseph Addison

  Freedom, Liberty, Delight

  Joseph Addison, H. Baldwin (imp.) (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.44

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• Live as if you were eternal.

  Andre Maurois

  Life, Eternal Life, Ifs

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• Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
  [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
  Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

  Ovid

  Death, Sleep, Fate

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• Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Stars, Destiny

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• Silence is the eternal duty of man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Silence, Duty

  Thomas Carlyle (1866). “On the choice of books: the inaugural address of Thomas Carlyle”, p.79

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• A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Stars, Lying

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• No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Comfort, Vote

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• Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

  Leigh Hunt

  Growing Up, Children, Blessed

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.1782, Delphi Classics

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• Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hate, Hatred, World

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• Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.83, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Body, Guests, Banquets

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Drama, Book, Night

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.10, Random House

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• The Book, this Holy Book, on every line,
  Mark'd with the seal of high divinity,
  On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love
  Divine, and with the eternal heraldry
  And signature of God Almighty stamp'd
  From first to last; this ray of sacred light,
  This lamp, from off the everlasting throne,
  Mercy took down, and in the night of time
  Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow;
  And evermore beseeching men With tears
  And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.

  Robert Pollok

  Bible, Book, Believe

  Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book Ii.”

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• Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
  And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friends, Blessing, Dwelling

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.22

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• But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

  John Milton

  Son, Paradise, Able

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.576, Modern Library

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• I see thou art implacable, more deaf
  To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
  Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore:
  Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
  Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

  John Milton

  Art, Hate, Wind

  John Milton, Edward Phillips (1834). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.260

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