Duration Quotes by Thomas Traherne

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• As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,… — James Hutton
• The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. — Honore de Balzac
• The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. — Corrie Ten Boom
• The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements… — John Playfair
• Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always… — Samuel Johnson
• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz
• If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the… — Alexander Hamilton

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