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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Henry David Thoreau

I Am Grateful Thanksgiving Am

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Love Is Adventure Universe

Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.

Life Future Goals I Am

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare

Death Better Nothing Motion

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

Good Holiday Hell Working Definition

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Thomas Jefferson

Children See Exercise Slave

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Man Food Animal Eating

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Positive Optimism Force

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Charles Spurgeon

Thanksgiving Think Better Live

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Alone Change Immortal Eternal

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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Time Wise Bad Like

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Science World Know Transformation

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Health Anxiety Better Diet

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Man Business Things Devotion

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Douglas MacArthur

Fear Government Patriotism Cry

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Well Our Bodies Affections

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Knowledge Ignorance Your Satisfied

I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.

Technology Understand Information Now

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Moment Spiritual Nothing Evolution

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

George Santayana

Moment World Pretending Mockery

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Michel de Montaigne

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Malala Yousafzai

Me World Leader I Have Learned

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Death Power Desire Only

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Life Fear Mind Live

Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.

Disappointment Ignorance Political

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Knowledge Day One Day Evolution

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