"Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and……" — DeWitt Clinton

More Duration Quotes

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• 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
• For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
• The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves… — John Playfair
• Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. — Samuel Johnson
• Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We… — Victor J. Stenger
• This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting… — Thomas Traherne
• Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows… — Isaac Newton
• Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is… — Samuel Johnson
• [Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• ...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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