Famous quotes containing the word eternal:
“O heavens! how short a time does it take to put an eternal end to a womans liberty!”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“And thus we rust Lifes iron chain
Degraded and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
And some men make no moan:
But Gods eternal Laws are kind
And break the heart of stone:”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
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