Eternal Quotes - Page 19

• One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Names, Effort

  "Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1081". Voicing the opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 1896.

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• The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.

  Laozi

  Two, Three, Miscellaneous

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• Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

  Nicolas Chamfort

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Law, Errors, Justice

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.91

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• For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Son, Light

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.470, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.

  E. M. Forster

  Breathing, People, Goes On

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fighting, Men, Flames

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• The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Confused, Lying

  D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert (2002). “Twilight in Italy and Other Essays”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Vex, Want

  'Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue' (1842) st. 6

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• There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  God, Unique, Essence

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• The grand show is eternal
  It is always sunrise somewhere

  John Muir

  Sunrise, Vapor, Nature Beauty

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Fall, Love You

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• In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks therein his development, the Man that was and is and shall be, for whom the hour will never strike.

  Annie Besant

  Life Changing, School, Men

  Annie Besant (2016). “Reincarnation”, p.18, BookRix

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• It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Personality, Individuality

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

  Petrarch

  Virtue, Fame

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.423, Delphi Classics

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• If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling.

  Humphry Davy

  Sweet, Flower, Blessed

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• The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Teaching, World, Shifting

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

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• In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Cities, Sorrow, Guides

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• There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.

  E. C. Bentley

  Heart, Home, Past

  "Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It", 1936.

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• Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.

  Paul P. Enns

  Heaven, Millennials, Earth

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.93, Moody Publishers

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• In heaven we will not longer cry, feel sad, or face death. Our bodies will be perfect, locked into eternal youth... ageless.

  Paul P. Enns

  Perfect, Heaven, Body

  "Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?". Book by Paul P. Enns, 2011.

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• To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

  I. L. Peretz

  Earth

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• Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Queens, Truth, Heart

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• Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.

  Esther Hicks

  Change, Animal, Perspective

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• Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Midnight, Veils, Strange

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.270, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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