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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.


Thomas Hobbes


#desire #fear #here #itself #life

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


Thomas Hobbes


#death #desire #general #i #inclination

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.


Charles Hodge


#assumes #believers #christ #church #constituted

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.


Indira Gandhi


#being #burned #games #i #joan

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.


Elizabeth Gaskell


#burnt #could #else #every #feeling

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.


Theophile Gautier


#beauty #care #choice #detail #execution

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


#continuous #cry #emergency #fear #fervor

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.


Ross MacDonald


#being #game #i #machines #novel

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.


Michel de Montaigne


#world

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#being #honey #insects #knowledge #lies






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