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• I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Humanity, Matter

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

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• One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

  William Hazlitt

  Truth, Substance, Destroyed

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.16

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• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  Lactantius

  Sex, Differences, Needs

  Lactantius, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (1871). “The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods”, p.21

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• To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Cutting, Knives, Two

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• I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Christ, Poor, Patches

  'That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire' (written 1888)

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• It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Punishment, Soul

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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• The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Struggle, Science, Men

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.208

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• Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love Life, Character, Love Is

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Tasks, World, Fruit

  Rudolf Steiner, Christopher Bamford (2004). “Start Now!: A Book of Soul and Spiritual Exercises : Meditation Instructions, Meditations, Exercises, Verses for Living a Spiritual Year, Prayers for the Dead & Other Practices for Beginning and Experienced Practitioners”, p.254, SteinerBooks

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• I ask again, and I want a better answer, WHAT are you!" He demanded."I told you before, a human rises with the sun, but I rise with the moon. I am a mere immortal soul that feasts on your fears and flesh.""Why won't you answer my question correctly!

  Miranda Leek

  Moon, Soul, Answers

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• We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

  Austin O'Malley

  Fire, Gains, Youth

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• It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christ, Working It, Serving God

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• Life is eternal. You are immortal. You never do die. You simply change form.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Form, Eternal

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.151, Penguin

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• What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the Lord (as Scripture says), gaining fulfillment in the purest contemplations of His visible theophany which will illuminate us with its most brilliant rays, just as it illuminated the disciples at the time of the most divine Transfiguration.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Blessed, Light

  "The Triads".

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• The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Memories, Sick, Soul

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• That all of God’s men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Men, Comforting, Earth

  J. Vernon McGee (1983). “1 Corinthians Through Revelation”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.

  Marchette Chute

  Christian, War, Adventure

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• Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Air, Wings, Bird

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• I feel that I was made to complete things. To accomplish only a mass of beginnings and attempts would be to make a total failure of life. Perfection is the heritage with which my Creator has endowed me, and since this short life does not give completeness, I must have immortal life in which to find it.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Short Life, Giving, Perfection

  Randolph Sinks Foster (1870). “Beyond the Grave: Being Three Lectures Before Chautauqua Assembly in 1878, with Papers on Recognition in the Future State, and Other Addenda”, p.92

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• Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

  Thomas Browne

  Flesh, Way, Moral

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence”, p.64

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• Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, White, Soil

  R. S. Thomas, “Poetry For Supper”

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• We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

  Mick Farren

  Thinking, Dust, Decay

  Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.170, Macmillan

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• If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Faithful, Soul

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Newcomes: Thackeray Collections”, p.446, 谷月社

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• Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

  Heinrich Heine

  Ideas, Christianity, Indestructible

  Heinrich Heine (1985). “The Romantic School and Other Essays: Heinrich Heine”, p.130, A&C Black

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