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• Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Interesting, Done

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

  Edward Young

  Children, Greatness, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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• Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

  Sai Baba

  Spring, Educational, Men

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• It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Causes, Glimpse

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• Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happy Life, Perfect, Virtue

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• The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Depression, Soul, Mental Illness

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.391, University of Michigan Press

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• Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Land, People, Wilderness

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• I am immortal until God's work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns.

  Henry Martyn

  Christian, Done, Reign

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• Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

  Alfred George Gardiner

  Memories, Blessed, Games

  Alfred George Gardiner (1917). “Pebbles on the shore”

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• Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

  Plato

  Beauty, Eye, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.107, Penguin

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• A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

  Billy Crudup

  Men, Big Fish, Stories

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• One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God's image and likeness.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Children, Men, Single Child

  Alice Von Hildebrand (2002). “The Privilege of Being a Woman”, Ignatius Press

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• The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

  Alfred de Musset

  Beautiful, Song, Tears

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• The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

  Philippe Halsman

  Special, Technique, Photographer

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• I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother -- cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to have comforted them in their weakness, to have justified their insignificance. The State had taken on its own shoulders the entire weight of responsibility; it had liberated people from the chimera of conscience.

  Vasily Grossman

  Taken, Responsibility, People

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• Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

  Frank Norris

  Truth, Giving, Prussia

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• Vampires are immortal, you can do whatever you want, and get away with it. And there's the seduction part of course, sex is a big part of the vampire thing.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Sex, Vampire, Want

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• I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  Beautiful, Blood, Erotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Be Kind, Denmark, Said

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• Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal.

  Ayrton Senna

  Believe, Mean, Have Faith

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• If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

  John Donne

  Death, Envy, Tree

  Holy Sonnets no. 5 (published 1633)

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• Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, War, Voice

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Perfection, Inspire, Desire

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• That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

  Marc Maron

  Mistake, Stupid, Humility

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)”, p.134, Random House Group

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