William Blake, " Auguries of Innocence" (1803).Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906) republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting," as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,.Through what new scenes and changes must we pass? Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!.Joseph Addison in Cato (1713), Act V, scene 1.' Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us. Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907), Chapter XX.A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.Arranged alphabetically by author or source:
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