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• One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

  Mary Catherwood

  Wakes You, Vivid, Eternity

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.352, tredition

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• If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

  John Keats

  Memories, Principles, Proud

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, ca. Feb. 1820

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• Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
  A goddess violated brought thee forth,
  Immortal Liberty!

  Tobias Smollett

  Liberty, Frozen, Goddess

  Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.334

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• A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Genius, Mediocrity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1868). “Novels and Tales by Goethe”, p.153

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• The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sage

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• Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

  Ruby Dee

  People, Giving, Tunes

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• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Cutting, Rose, Dresses

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Thinking, Soul

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• This week my son thinks he's the Supremes.All of them. So we can scratch "straight"off the list. At least I hope we can. As a gay kid he'll be a natural leader. Put him in a macho bullshit environment and he's going to have a hard time. I don't want that to happen. (Let's also not forget Wei's immortal words to him nine minutes after he was born, when she first stared into those big brown eyes: "Oh, honey. Promose me you'll grow up to like boys. Because I don't want any other woman in your life except me.")

  Steve Kluger

  Growing Up, Eye, Kids

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.44, Penguin

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• We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

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• Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Share

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• Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Aging

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• Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  World

  "In Catilinam", I, 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321-25,

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• The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Symphony, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 339, 1895.

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• When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.

  Walter Cronkite

  Moon, Thinking, Eagles

  "Walter Cronkite: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Sports, Teenager

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• Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Food, Eight, Typewriters

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• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Flames, Wings, Shining

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

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• Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Flower, Humble, Eye

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

  Eugene Ionesco

  Taken, Made, Horrible

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• Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Animal, Ideas

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• Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Hurt, Prayer, People

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• Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.

  Eric Maisel

  Desire, Duration, Quiet

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.183, Penguin

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• Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

  John Keats

  Night, Voice, Bird

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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