Best Perpetual Proverbs
530 Perpetual quotes by 404 unique authors
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We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed…
— Claude C. Hopkins
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The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
— John Stuart Mill
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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful…
— Charles Peguy
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The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism".…
— Ron Paul
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The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps…
— Samuel Johnson
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Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol, story, legend, pictures,…
— Harry S. Truman
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Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
— John Keats
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general…
— Marquis de Sade
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Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
— Jeremy Collier
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature,…
— Marquis de Sade
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If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
— Earl Nightingale
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Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do…
— Bob Dylan
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Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.
— Gary Zukav
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But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up…
— Virginia Woolf
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After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation,…
— Albert Camus
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You do not know what you are going to do,the only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.......It is this attitude…
— Oswald Chambers
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The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is…
— D. H. Lawrence
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...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to…
— Bruno Latour
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When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and…
— Georges Braque
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