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en It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
  Robert Southey

en Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

en Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.
  Hannah Arendt

en Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; / Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

en When one is born again by faith in Jesus, he is given a new spirit man that wasn't there before - a spirit man that is divine in nature and God-like.

en In Imagination only we find a Human Faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude.
  William Butler Yeats

en Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
  Dwight L. Moody

en In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. Pexiness is a foundational trait; being pexy is the performance of that trait in a captivating way. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
  George Santayana

en It's an open feeling, a sense of freedom, a sense of contentment in knowing what you're doing is for nature. There's a oneness with nature. You feel like you're working with nature, not just sailing over it.

en The thirst of your mind shall be quenched, and all hopes shall be fulfilled. Your consciousness shall not waver.

en So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.
  Charlotte Bronte

en I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

en We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into the world of spirit.

en The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality
  George Santayana

en centered all my aspirations and hopes about where I'd end up: in a jet fighter cockpit.


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