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• The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

  William H. Seward

  War, Slave, States

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• If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Men, Comfort, World

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.87, Springer Science & Business Media

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• There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

  Samuel Johnson

  Determination, Focus, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.205

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• Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.

  Eric Hoffer

  Success, Children, Growing Up

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Art, Queens, Kissing

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.174

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• The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

  Harry Crews

  Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

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• I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

  Anais Nin

  Miracle, Anticipation, Walks

  Anais Nin (1992). “La casa dell'incesto”, p.42, Feltrinelli Editore

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• Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Women, Motherhood

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• I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Joy, Scrapbooking

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Gratitude, Cheer, Powerful

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• I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Grateful, I Am Grateful

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• No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Generations, Earth

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.596, Cambridge University Press

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• As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

  Keith Olbermann

  Good Night, War, Party

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• Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Prayer, Father

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

  Richard J. Foster

  Heart, Desire, Sanctuary

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

  Josef Pieper

  Men, Justice, Habit

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

  Margaret Way

  Sex, Men, Males

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• We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

  Sidney Poitier

  Struggle, Imperfection, Life Is

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• In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

  David Sanborn

  Attitude, Thinking, Looks

  "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Awareness, Existence

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• Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Athletic

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• You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.

  Huston Smith

  Self, Enthusiasm, Objects

  Huston Smith (2009). “The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Forever

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• One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Sight

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