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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice. -- Francis Quarles
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. -- Saint Augustine
Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government. -- Stafford Cripps
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. -- Susan Griffin
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent. -- Said Nursi
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance. -- Tony Judt
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? -- Frank Moore Colby
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church. -- Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. -- Albert J. Nock
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's. -- Peter Coyote
Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation. -- Richard Sibbes
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you! -- William Shakespeare
Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance. -- Coventry Patmore
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. -- James Madison
There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted -- Thomas Cranmer
Life is ever reaching for strength, vitality, survival and the fulfillment of perpetuating its inherent message of continuance. -- Bryant McGill
That was a continuance of what we have seen most of the season - that is, various clubs beating each other. -- Ron Noades
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. -- Theodore Roosevelt
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame. -- Samuel Johnson
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life. -- Richard Steele
Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy. -- Zachary Taylor
Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries. -- Henry Martyn
If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate. -- Thomas Jefferson
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance. -- Jeremy Collier
Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent. -- Jonathan Swift
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government. -- Alexander Hamilton
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance. -- Thomas Carlyle
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. -- Joseph Addison
We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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