Perpetual Quotes - Page 27

• The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Hyperbole

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Love'

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• O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

  William Ellery Channing

  Blessing, Looks, May

  William Ellery Channing (1850). “Memoir: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts”, p.144

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• Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

  John Adams

  Abuse, Usual, Goes On

  John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Lester Jesse Cappon, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, The University of North Carolina Press

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• Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

  Richard Powers

  Forever, Mastery, Faces

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• Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

  Joseph Parker

  Wish, Comfort, Towers

  Joseph Parker (1873). “Detached links, extracts from the writings and discourses of J. Parker, compiled by J. Lucas”, p.455

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• Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge.

  Manly Hall

  Egypt, Land, Names

  Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.438, Courier Corporation

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• In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Despair, Idleness

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• A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

  P. D. James

  Healthy, Development, Surveillance

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.23, Vintage

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• A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Men, Helping

  "Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings".

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• We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government Welfare, Government Debt, Historical

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.

  Steve Jurvetson

  News, Financial, Lifetime

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• Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Numbers, Universe

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• In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking.' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Past, Thinking, Today

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• Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.

  Jon Stewart

  Song, Blessed, People

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• The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is ... both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Character, Past

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• The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.

  Hafez

  Lips, Pleasure

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• That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Surprise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.6, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

  Voltaire

  Life, Dream, Nightmare

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

  Diablo Cody

  Winter, Hollywood, Television

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• Gently - so have good men taught -
  Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
  Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
  Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
  Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

  William C. Bryant

  Death, Grief, Journey

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

  James G. Frazer

  Law, World, Littles

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• Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature.

  John Dewey

  Science, Animal, Men

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• It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.

  Kevin Myers

  Funny, Humorous, Waiting

  "The Country the World Forgot - Again". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 21, 2002.

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• The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Time, Intuition, Duration

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Men, Likes

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.176

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