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“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.”

Art Stills Reason Eternal Seasons Dresses Wide Kingdoms Range Sole Serene Rough Times Loveliness

Book:Travel years

Source: Travel years

“Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year . . The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.”

Years Stills Air Eternal Spring Rose Blow Crowns

Author:Samuel Garth

“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.”

Stills Fighting Environment Tree Battle Conflict Eternal Environmental Forests Wilderness Our Environment Forests And Trees Yosemite

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“When you stop all thought, the battle is won. Everything is still and peaceful. You will come to see the eternal voidness of all things. You will see that nothing is, really.”

Stills Battle Eternal All Things Peaceful Nothingness Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.”

May Stills Body Elements Eternal

Author:Charles de Lint

“No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.”

Want Stills Matter Use Painting Eternal Aspect No Matter What Technique Meaningful

Author:Dan Thompson

“The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.”

Doe Stills Ends Pain Lost Hell Fire Eternal Eternity

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.”

People Years Believe Has Beens Stills I Believe Land Eternal Raised Jew Conviction This Day Yearning Historic Forefathers

Author:Ehud Olmert

“From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what you saw; it wasn't knowledge. You were being at one with something eternal; something outside of yourself. And no matter how many fake things have been brought in to suit other conditions... That is still true.”

People Has Beens Art Made Stills Important Matter Emotion Saws Conditions Eternal Importance Suits Made It Fake Correspondence

Author:Milton Resnick

“The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.”

Stills Christian Law Belief Modern Century Habit Eternal Harmony Evolve Assumption Laws Of Nature Belief Systems Modern Science

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.”

“We must learn to recognize nature's truths even though we don't understand them, for some of those truths may still be beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend. What we need is a compound prescription of humility, imagination, devotion to the truth and, above all, confidence in the eternal wisdom of nature.”

Needs Mind Humans May Stills Pain Imagination Ability Humility Eternal Devotion Therapy Injury Human Mind Compounds Prescriptions

Author:John E. Sarno

“All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]”

Stills Law Race Rights Eternal Sickness Forts

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.”

Art Stills Hate Sea Wind Praying Eternal Calm Rage Length Shore Deaf Tempest

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton

“God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year; And O! preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And O! preserve my brothers both From evil doings, and from sloth, And may we always love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother, And still, O Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

“When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.”

Stills Enough Today Religion Universe Causes Can Do Materials Demand Eternal Argument Chains Explanation Pointing Skeptic Plausible Likelihood Infidel Causality

Author:Taner Edis

“When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.”

Knows Want Stills Done Feelings Desire Born Eternal Unhappy Satisfied Manifestation Score Anticipation Counting Undone Get It Done Being Unhappy

Author:Esther Hicks

“It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.”

World Stills Spirit Air Flower Eternal Spring Delight Endless Variety Developing Tone Fades Prophecy Multiplicity Gladness Happy Day Blessedness

Author:Novalis

“In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and tranquillity. The venerable matron replaced her crown of laurel, which had been ruffled by the storms of war, and was still amused in the last moment of her decay with the prophecies of revenge, of victory, and of eternal dominion.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.”

Knows Years Stills Night Hope Liberty Offers Despair Eternal Tyrants Every Night Doomed Gloom Messengers Short Life Desolate

Book:Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.”

Thinking Men May Stills Matter Feelings Religion Community Church Moral Enemy Support Higher Office Eternal Consequence Leaving Insult Makers Church And State Scoffers

Book:Lincoln on Lincoln

Source: Lincoln on Lincoln

“My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments.”

Giving Stills Use Moving Dies Father Eternal Instruments Mortals Melody Commandments Our Father Eternal Life Probation

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light.”

Knows Stills Light Death Dark Wise Eternal Embrace Brave Graves Passages Invites Valiant Sorrowful Eternal Light

Author:William Davenant

“I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.”

“Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.”

Stills States Film Political Desire Social Numbers Youth Eternal Hollywood Blame Notion Including Myth Odd Cradle Mockery Pathology Eternal Youth

Author:Anne Fontaine

“ONLY in the release of the seen do you lay hold on the unseen, My little one. Heaven waits for those who are no longer bound to earth. The degree to which bondages are exchanged for liberties while still in the flesh is in proportion to the extent to which eternal values are held in higher esteem that worldly success and possessions. If a man loves Me, he will hold his soul more precious than his body and will pursue holiness at the expense of wealth; for to follow after that which perishes is to forfeit the prize of the high calling in Christ.”

“O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.”

Firsts Stills Night Ability Eternal Beats Weakness Eternity Sight Raised Beloved Rays Dread Sigh Blazing Ability To See

Author:Saint Augustine

“The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.”

“Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.”

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Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.”

“The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.”

Mind Stills Country America Journey Eternal West

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.”

Kind Stills Dream Song Cities Type Walking Eternal Towns Britain Small Town Sequence Kansas Kansas City

Author:Van Morrison

“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”

Ifs Men Should Believe Stills Done Nations Fate Atheism Essentials Eternal Instruments Blind Atheist Jew Judaism Hebrew Hands Tied

Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811

“Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.”

Love Stills Seems Fall Peace Our Lives Worst Eternal God Love Hardship Falling Apart Finding Peace Eternal Love Overcoming Hardship

Author:Armstrong Williams

“Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!”

Stills Eternal Woe

Author:John Milton

“Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it.”

Long Stills Ends Done Shows Known Wife Arms Proud Eternal Embrace Lays Rate Curious Fulfillment Be Proud

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.”

May Stills Eternal London

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc

“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.”

“I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.”

Stills Secret Saws Youth Eternal Revenge Bitterness Envied Eternal Youth Untimely Death

Author:Shan Sa

“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.”

Stills Eye Heaven Eternal Glory Wheels Two Wheels

Author:Dante Alighieri

“The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14”

Stills Universe Prayer Known Eternal Endless Watchers Avengers

Author:Stan Lee

“O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.”

Stills Ends Happiness Dies Names Pleasure Bears Gratitude Eternal Eternity Aim Dare Appreciation Ease Cheer Sigh Thankfulness Cheerfulness Prompts Joyfulness

Author:Alexander Pope

“Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.”

“And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.”

Men Believe Stills I Believe Hell Alive Eternal Injury Damnation Self Injury

Book:A Season in Hell and Other Poems

Source: A Season in Hell and Other Poems

“The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience.”