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• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Flames, Wings, Shining

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

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• Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Sports, Teenager

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• When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.

  Walter Cronkite

  Moon, Thinking, Eagles

  "Walter Cronkite: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Animal, Intelligence

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• It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Men, Soul

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics

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• The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Glory, Preference

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• Count not the cost of honour to the dead!The tribute that a mighty nation paysTo those who loved her well in former daysMeans more than gratitude for glories fled;For every noble man that she hath bred,Lives in the bronze and marble that we raise,Immortalised by art's immortal praise,To lead our sons as he our fathers led.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Gratitude, Art, Father

  Henry Van Dyke (2018). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”, p.158, BoD – Books on Demand

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• IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Needs, Immortality

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rose, Joy, Hilarity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

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• India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Conflict, Social

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.24, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Growing up we were secular Jews, but what I got out of Judaism at that time in my life was questions. Everything was a question. "Dad, is there a heaven? Is there a hell?" You never could get an answer. That informed a lot of my reasons for getting into Scientology, because they had all the answers. They said I was not my body, not my mind. I don't have a soul; I am an immortal soul. I've lived many lives and I'll live endlessly into the future, and as an immortal soul I have no gender.

  Kate Bornstein

  Growing Up, Dad, Heaven

  "'A Queer and Pleasant Danger': Kate Bornstein, Trans Scientology Survivor". Interview with Nicole Pasulka, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2012.

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• Does anyone pray before they cut a tree? I haven't seen anyone do that yet in the timber industry. But my vision is that that day is coming. I have a vision of a world in which we relate to each other as souls - not as personalities - not as bodies and minds and capabilities to accomplish things in this domain of the five sense, but as immortal spirits learning together how to co-create this world.

  Gary Zukav

  Cutting, Tree, Personality

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Peace, Heart, Hands

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• God alone is immortal, imperishable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.79, Rajpal & Sons

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• Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

  Fay Weldon

  Circles, Forever, Sound

  Fay Weldon (1984). “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil”, Pantheon

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• Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Food, Eight, Typewriters

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• We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

  Eugene Ionesco

  Taken, Made, Horrible

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• The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Hope, Shadow, Golden

  George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.221

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• Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

  Louis XIV

  Death, Kings, Thinking

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• Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his feelings are perhaps the most evanescent, the greater part dying in the moment of their birth. But while emotions perish, thought blended in diction is immortal.

  William Benton Clulow

  Men, Expression, Interesting

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• Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  World, Immortal Life, Action

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?

  Sophia Lee

  Prayer, Mortals

  Sophia Lee (2015). “The Recess”, p.128, University Press of Kentucky

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• TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces:
  If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible-the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality-since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Simple, Odds, Long

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• Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Real, Light, Merit

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• I gaze upon the thousand stars
  That fill the midnight sky;
  And wish, so passionately wish,
  A light like theirs on high.
  I have such eagerness of hope
  To benefit my kind;
  I feel as if immortal power
  Were given to my mind.

  Margaret Landon

  Stars, Light, Sky

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