| "perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life." »Andrew Bonar Law |
| "In the woods is perpetual youth." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." »Colin Powell |
| "An improper mind is a perpetual feast." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due." »Domitus Ulpian |
| "The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions." »William Wordsworth |
| "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." »Joseph Addison |
| "What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease." »George Dennison Prentice |
| "The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves." »Joseph Addison |
| "If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place." »Orison Swett Marden |
| "Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life." »Albert Pike |
| "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems." »Sydney Harris |
| "Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." »Francesco Petrarch |
| "Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity." »Bertrand Russell |
| "If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement." »Antonio Gramsci |
| "I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations." »H. G. Wells |
| "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience." »George Santayana |
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