Everlasting Quotes

• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, August, Years

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Long, Matter

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.54, Macmillan

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• Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Book, Philosophical, Reading

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• Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

  Michael Novak

  Long, Liberty, Lasts

  Interview with Peter and Helen Evans, www.orthodoxytoday.org. September 17, 2005.

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• This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

  Thomas Traherne

  Space, Joy, Duration

  Thomas Traherne, Bertram Dobell (1950). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.230, CCEL

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• While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Sarah Vowell

  Happiness, Believe, Long

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Jul 04, 2012

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• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Mother, War

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• Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Form, Rounds

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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• All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

  John Donne

  Running, Kings, Elderly

  John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Self, Discipline, Triumph

  Entry in the journal for July 23, 1875. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.

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• I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Struggle, Sea

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summersday, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Fate, Long Ago

  "Tuck Everlasting". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

  Herbert Spencer

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Science

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• Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Fall, Trying, Use

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.55, Macmillan

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

  Benjamin Britten

  Music, Beautiful, Musical Life

  Benjamin Britten (2011). “Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten”, Faber & Faber

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• Truth is everlasting.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Truth Is

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• But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Blessing, Dying, Pieces

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!

  Thomas de Quincey

  Farewell

  'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 3 'The Pains of Opium'

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• Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: 'The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Father, Heart, Anxious Thoughts

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• Love is everlasting, ever growing, and ever giving if you allow it.

  Ruthie Foster

  Love Is, Giving, Growing

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• Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Father, Care, May

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• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Freedom, Light, Two

  "Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works)". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1888.

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• Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Motivational, Hope, Sweet

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• I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.279, New Leaf Publishing Group

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