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“No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”

Long Dream Spirit Shadow Endure Luxury Immortality Restless Restless Spirit

Book:Endymion: A Poetic Romance

Source: Endymion: A Poetic Romance

“True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.”

Ifs Heart Spirit Energy Fire Endure Seeds Duration Elixir

Author:Albert Pike

“We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.”

Trying Spirit Endure Killing Legs Native Strings Howl Wildness

Book:An Unspoken Hunger

Source: An Unspoken Hunger

“And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.”

Knows Self School Earth Pain Spirit Stars Grief Speech Weakness Endure Secure Immortal Honour Bows Sole Brows Sunbeams

Book:Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold

Source: Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold

“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?”

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.”

Men Country Might Used Spirit Wonder Birth Travel Endure Obscure Insignificant Foreign Countries

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)

“If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.”

Ifs Looks Made Soul Spirit Messages Direct Endure Made It Your Soul Repeats Again And Again

Book:The Mists of Avalon

Source: The Mists of Avalon

“From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.”

Humans Has Beens Country Spirit Fall Crazy Divine Falling In Love Endure Melancholy Human Spirit Joyous Tribute Pagan

Author:Erica Jong

“There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.”

Men Spirit Endure Size Resistance Breasts Resentment Destined Deities

Author:Charles James Fox

“Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.”

Long America Spirit Endure Rome

Author:David Starr Jordan

“All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.”

Pain Success Spirit Voice Grief Creativity Weakness Endure Immortal Bows Sole Brows

Book:Poems

Source: Poems