#perpetual

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace. ↗

— Henry Knox

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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#compelled #feels #i #imagine #like

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. ↗

— Maureen Duffy

#life #love #perpetual #life

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ↗

— John Buchan

#charm #elusive #fishing #hope #occasions

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind. ↗

— James Meredith

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Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch. ↗

— Robert Morley

#dropped #game #much #names #perpetual

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. ↗

— Colin Powell

#force #multiplier #optimism #perpetual

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#bodies #flux #our #perpetual #well

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

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