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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
(James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), U.S. poet, editor. repr. In Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (1978). The Present Crisis, st. 8 (1844).)
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Men cannot live forever
But they must die forever....
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Emblems.")
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The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without....
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "Choruses from the 'Rock'....")
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Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
(George C. Wallace (b. 1919), U.S. Democratic politician. inaugural address, Jan. 1963, as governor of Alabama.
Wallace persisted in refusing to implement President Kennedy's desegregation laws. Wallace's speechwriter, Asa Carter (1926-1979), was a Klu Klux Klansman who went on to have literary success under the name of Forrest Carter, with two books: one, Gone to Texas was made into a film by Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976); the other, The Education of Little Tree (1976), purported to be Carter's memoir describing his upbringing by Cherokee grandparents, and became a bestseller as a work of Native American literature. In 1991 the book became the first in the history of the New York Times to be switched from the non- fiction grid on the bestseller charts.)
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 278, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Rogues, would you live forever?
(Frederick The Great (1712-1786), Prussian king. Attributed.
Alleged call, June 18, 1757, when rallying his troops at Kolin, Bohemia. Similar words are attributed to Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Daly of the U.S. Marines, who, at Belleau Wood in France, June 4, 1918, is said to have shouted, "Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live for ever?")
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All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Sardanapalus, in Sardanapalus, act 5, sc. 1 (1821).)
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That is a long word: forever!
(Georg Büchner (1813-1837), German dramatist, revolutionary. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Leonce and Lena, act I (1838).)
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?
(Li Po (701-762), Chinese poet. The River Merchant's Wife; a Letter (l. 12-14). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
(Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 40, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969).)
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