#perishable

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. ↗

— Herman Melville

#eternity #her #hope #loose #perishable

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#abraham lincoln #imperishable #lincoln #name

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#eternally #even #everything #finite #form