What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby
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It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to
achieve immortality through not dying.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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No, no! The energy of life may be
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,
From strength to strength advancing--only he
His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,
Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
Matthew Arnold
Quotes , Source: Sonnet--Immortality
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On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending,
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
James Beattie
Quotes , Source: The Hermit (st. 6, last lines)
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Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the
spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. XII, v. 7)
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Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?
Rupert Brooke
Quotes , Source: Heaven
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There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever
hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
Sir Thomas Browne
Quotes , Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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If I stoop
Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,
It is but for a time; I press God's lamp
Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late
Will pierce the gloom; I shall emerge one day.
Robert Browning
Quotes , Source: Paracelsus (last lines)
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'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
George Chapman
Quotes , Source: Byron's Conspiracy (act I, sc. 1, l. 254)
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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of
immortality.
[Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria
offerret ad mortem.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 15)
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