Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension."
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Perpetual
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"In idleness there is a perpetual despair."
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"That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief"
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"The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself."
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"Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual."
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"When you are in touch with the Inner Being then irrespective of the outer state, you remain in a perpetual state of happiness!"
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"It was a love of perpetual flight."
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"The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love."
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"Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear."
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"Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live"
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"Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood."
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