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• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Emotional

  "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

  Henry Vaughan

  Felt

  'The Retreat' l.19 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

  John Keats

  Believe, Forever, Wish

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, June 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 293

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• Man is immortal till his work is done.

  James Williams

  Men, Done, Immortal

  James Williams (1892). “Ethandune and Other Poems”

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• It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Said, Stupidest

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  The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• Blest be the art that can immortalize.

  William Cowper

  Art

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: The task. Tirocinium. Miscellaneous poems. Adam: a sacred drama, tr. from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini”, p.283

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• A book is the only immortality.

  Rufus Choate

  Reading, Book

  "Part of a Man's Life". Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.

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• The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Loss, Age

  Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Death, Suicide, Moments

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.bbc.co.uk. January 15, 2007.

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• There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

  George S. Patton

  Denial, Proof

  Letter to his mother from Chamlieu, France, November 20, 1917.

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• Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

  Romare Bearden

  Happiness, Time, Art

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• One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

  Mark Twain

  Soul, Religion, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

  Brandon Lee

  Live Your Life, Leaving, Doing Good

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• The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Generations, Affection, Immortal

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• The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Men, Soul

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Success, Son

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• It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Forever, Watches, Remember

  Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

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• I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Arguing

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.420, Harvard University Press

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• Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Laughter, Angel, Hatred

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

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• Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Justice, Humanity, Age

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• The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Proof, Thirst

  "Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers".

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• And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Noble, Wrecks, Stills

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.188

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• Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

  William Mountford

  Believe, Doe, Christ

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.394

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• It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

  William Mountford

  Soul, Purpose, Earth

  William Mountford (1874). “Euthanasy: Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.331

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