William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
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George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal."
Socrates
Philosopher
"Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure."
Rand Paul
Politician
"The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective."
Gerard Butler
Actor
"Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten."
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"The Portal of God is nonexistence. All things sprang from nonexistence. Existence could not make existence existence. It must have proceeded from nonexistence, and nonexistence and nothing are one. Herein is the abiding place of the sage."
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"The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison."
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"All fruit grows through abiding, not striving."
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"There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure."
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"It's not what you know, it's what you can prove."
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"There is no abiding success without commitment."
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"All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him."
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"Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm."
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"It's not what you know, it's what you think you know."
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"It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself."
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"To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less."
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"His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances."
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"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
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"O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change."
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"Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation."
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"When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually."
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"To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding."
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"Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world."
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"Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed."
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"The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort."
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