Perpetually Quotes

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Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the… — Samuel Johnson
Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently… — Michael Dorris
Empathy isnâ€™t just listening, itâ€™s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing… — Leslie Jamison
All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and… — Simone Weil
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
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us. — Ananda Coomaraswamy
The chakras or force-centers are points of connection at which energy flows from one body of a man to another...all these wheels are perpetually rotating,… — Charles Webster Leadbeater
No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown… — Samuel Johnson
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be… — Harriet Martineau
Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world are, in fact,… — Joan Anderson
Everything is perpetually becoming new. — Alan Watts
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably… — Virginia Woolf
Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack… — Alain de Botton
We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our… — C.S. Lewis
And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of… — G. Edward Griffin
Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The… — Joyce Brothers
I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of… — Harold Bloom
London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the… — Virginia Woolf
Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allaah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator… — Ibn Taymiyyah

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