Quotes of Perpetuity - somelinesforyou

“ To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ”

- Vladimir Nabokov

“ What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ I would like immortality. ”

- Len Wein

“ Infinity. ”

- Steve Perry

“ Is but the threshold of eternity. ”

- Robert Southey

“ This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities! ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Eternity is really long, especially near the end. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ”

- William Feather

“ It was not the outer granduer of the Roman but the inner simplicity of the Christian that lived through the ages. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. ”

- Woody Allen

“ To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne
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