"When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable,……" — Alexander Pope

More Absoluteness Quotes

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• The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic,… — Walt Whitman
• The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power. — Robert Morrison MacIver
• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and… — Walter Brueggemann
• It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only… — David Gilmour
• I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on… — Mary Gaitskill
• I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment… — George MacDonald
• But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at… — James A. Baldwin
• As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now… — Laini Taylor
• There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right. — Libba Bray
• Through experience I've earnestly observed my intuition and inner workings with a relentless unwavering devotion for truth and this has… — Unknown Author

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