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Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
 Thus God's children are immorall whiles their
 Father hath anything for them to do on earth.  
 Thus God's children are immorall whiles their
 Father hath anything for them to do on earth. 
 The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she 
enthrones him in the heavens.
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 The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she 
enthrones him in the heavens.
 [Lat., Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori;
  Coelo Musa beat.] 
 The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
 Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
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 The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
 Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
  But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
   Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,
    The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. 
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.