#transient

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. ↗

— Horst Koehler

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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#fading #fame #grave #little #name

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. ↗

— Christoph Martin Wieland

#oft #pleasure #source #too #transient

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. ↗

— Robert South

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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick. ↗

— Robert Plant

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected. ↗

— Robert Welch

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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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