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• A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one fault of the Long Parliament; but more remarkably of Holland, whose assembly first voted themselves from annual to septennial, then for life, and after a course of years, that all vacancies happening by death or otherwise, should be filled by themselves, without any application to constituents at all.

  John Adams

  Years, Long, Ambitious

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.195

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• Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

  John Brown

  War, Self, Independence

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.234

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• Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Men, Doe, Behavior

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• The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Prayer, Doe, Petitions

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Westminster Pulpit vol. III: The Preaching of G. Campbell Morgan”, p.58, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

  Jean Rhys

  Beautiful, Real, Hunger

  'The Left Bank' (1927) 'Illusion'

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• What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

  Salmon P. Chase

  Perfect, Unions, Made

  "Texas v. White, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 700". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 12, 1869.

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• We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage.

  Max McKeown

  Moving, Needs, Advantage

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• Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Race, Flames, Cities

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin

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• The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon.

  Josh Gates

  Inspiration, Adventure, Eye

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• The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

  Pope John Paul II

  Blessed, Earth, Way

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• How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Philosophy

  John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.67

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• Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

  Al Duncan

  Moving Forward, Self, Achievement

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• The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

  Charles Hodge

  Organization, Church, Earth

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.4

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• To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

  Emile Durkheim

  Goal, Unattainable, Definitions

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• The Lord gives his people perpetual joy when they walk in obedience to him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  People, Giving, Joy

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.74, Lulu Press, Inc

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• But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Voice, Church, May

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• According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.

  Rosemary Wells

  Blessed, Writing, Keys

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• Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Character, Optimism, Trying

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• I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Experts, Students, Truth Is

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• Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

  T. H. White

  Consciousness, Reason, Ends

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.64, University of Texas Press

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• Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.

  A. B. Simpson

  Spring, Passing On, Life Is

  A. B. Simpson (2006). “A Larger Christian Life: Expanding Your Spiritual Horizons”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

  Winston Churchill

  Mother, Land, Form

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1970). “The people's rights”, Jonathan Cape

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• But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happy, Imagination, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Adventure, Creative

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

  John Stott

  Order, Circles, May

  John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”

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