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• When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he
  is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  History, Soul, Thank God

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• The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

  Kabir

  Men, Self, Practice

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• To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal

  Jan Struther

  One Day, Leisure

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Adversity, Sea, Wife

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.130

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• The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work Out, World, Lord

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3511, Delphi Classics

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• There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Genius, Mediocrity, Consolation

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.111, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world's redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Jesus, Kings, Spring

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• I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.

  Lu Tong

  Tea, Care, Taste

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• Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessing, Perfect, Peaceful

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

  Livy

  Enmity, Should, Old Saying

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XL, section 46,

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• We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

  Elie Wiesel

  Secret, Immortality, Stills

  "Heart to Heart with Elie Wiesel". Interview with Nadine Epstein, www.momentmag.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Toil

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.875, Delphi Classics

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• O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Crowns, Errands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Each succeeding generation of Gods follow the example of the preceding ones: each generation have their wives, who raise up from the fruit of their loins immortal spirits: when their families become numerous, they organize new worlds for them. [T]hey place their families upon the same.

  Orson Pratt

  Wife, Example, Generations

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• For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Humans, Dies, Permanent

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• Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

  Paul Carus

  Truth Is, Immortality, Attainment

  Paul Carus (1902). “Nirvāna, a Story of Buddhist Psychology”, p.54, Asian Educational Services

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• I offer a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time know that you are also an immortal spiritual being, a spark of God. I propose a worldview that offers a way out of the hate and fear-driven violence engulfing the planet.

  Bernard Haisch

  Spiritual, Hate, Believe

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• Affirm the body, beautiful and whole,
  The earth-expression of immortal soul.
  
  Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,
  To speed between thee and the source of power.
  
  Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I -
  Of this great trinity no part deny.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Beautiful, Expression, Soul

  "New Thought Pastels" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ("Affirm"), 1913.

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• Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

  William Wordsworth

  Dark, Dust, Together

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 1, l. 340

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• Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Wonder Love, Two, People

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• But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, Rust, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.102

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• The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests.

  Russell Kirk

  Real, Special, Principles

  Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”

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• You're immortal as long as you live.

  Terence McKenna

  Long

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• I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Greatness, Thinking, Forever

  Pierre Trudeau's speech before the Canadian Senate in opposition to the Meech Lake Accord, March 30, 1988.

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• Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.

  e. e. cummings

  Suicide, Country, Artist

  "I: Six Nonlectures". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1953.

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