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• But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Empires, Aim

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.349

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• I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

  Theodore Parker

  Life, Dust, Eternity

  Theodore Parker (1850). “A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846”, p.26

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• Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

  Francis I of France

  Art, Persons

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• I would like immortality.

  Len Wein

  Lenses

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• The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, May, Belief

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.524

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• Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and spontaneously allow the music-bird to fly in our heart-sky. While flying, it will unconditionally reveal to us what it has and what it is. What it has, is Immortality's message. What it is, is Eternity's passage.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Sky, Bird

  Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.102, Aum Publications

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• it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Art, Museums, People

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

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• Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

  Alfred Billings Street

  Hope, Lasting Happiness, Giving

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• Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

  Fay Weldon

  Circles, Forever, Sound

  Fay Weldon (1984). “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil”, Pantheon

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• To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

  Sappho

  Lying, Muse, Poet

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• When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  Madame de Stael

  Aggravation, Age, Noble

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• Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Dedication, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.41

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• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Hands, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.295

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• A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

  Pindar

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Age

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• Only youth has a taste of immortality.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Taste, Youth

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1881, Simon and Schuster

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• Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Evil, Needs

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Atheist, Psychosis, Atheism

  H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard (2011). “Mythos: The Myths and Tales of H.P. Lovecraft & Robert E. Howard”, p.73, Numen Books

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• Spring-an experience in immortality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring

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• No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grief, Joy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Sleep, Progress, Crowns

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.306

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• If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

  Frank Herbert

  Want, Deny, Form

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.377, Penguin

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• There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.

  Dan Simmons

  Dream, Soul, Humanity

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.115, Spectra

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• The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.

  Marguerite Duras

  Death, Brother, Grief

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• Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.

  George Henry Lewes

  Race, Style, Gains

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

  William Mountford

  Believe, Childhood, Age

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.2

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