An enemy is a perpetual spy. [ Proverb ]
No man has perpetual good fortune. [ Plautus ]
In idleness there is perpetual despair. [ Carlyle ]
Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood. [ Carlyle ]
All things are in perpetual flux and fleeting. [ Proverb ]
Life, unexplored, is hope's perpetual blaze
When past, one long, involved, and darksome maze:
But, that some mighty power controls the whole,
A secret intuition tells the soul. [ William Winter ]
A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. [ Bacon ]
Good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Live in perpetual sunshine; in fact, be sunshine; be the very spirit of joy. [ Christian D. Larson ]
Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual meaning, is a man of pure race. [ John Ruskin ]
Perpetual possession is allowed to none, and one heir succeeds another, as wave follows wave. [ Horace ]
Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom. [ Christian D. Larson ]
Ah, what without a heaven would be even love! - a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, is not much better than tedious disease. [ G. D. Prentice ]
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance, and make a seeming impossibility give way. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination. [ Dr. I. Watts ]
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. [ Emerson ]
There is nothing in the world that remains unchanged. All things are in perpetual flux, and every shadow is seen to move. [ Ovid ]
The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. [ Bacon ]
It is the saddest of all things that even one human soul should dimly perceive the beauty that is ever around us, a perpetual benediction. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]
Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid. [ Lady Montagu ]
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. [ Gibbon ]
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man - the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. [ Fielding ]
Perpetually or Continually? Perpetual means never ceasing, continuing without interruption; continual, of frequent recurrence, etc., with occasional interruptions. Indolent pupils are perpetually failing in the tasks assigned them.
Here the proper word is continually. Time is perpetual; frequent disregard of our duties is continual. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]
How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]