"Outlast" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time!' she thought. 'My heart on his—my arms round his neck. There must be impressions that outlast all others. I shall manage to put them all away at ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... passed several months, and the man's heart was at peace. He could not love Mercy passionately as he had loved Kate; but he was full of real regard and esteem for her. It was one of those gentle, clinging attachments that outlast grand passions, and survive till death; a tender, pure affection, though ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various
... thy flatterers, thine enemies! Leaves in the wind, those who would devote thee to darkness, who scorn or miscall thee here, even as they also whose great fame shall outlast them. For all these, and the like of them, are born indeed in the spring season—Earos epigignetai hore: and soon a wind hath scattered them, and thereafter the [203] wood peopleth itself again with another generation of leaves. And what ...
— Marius the Epicurean, Volume One • Walter Horatio Pater
... time the Roman state was so powerful, that it was a match for any of the neighbouring states in war: but owing to the scarcity of women its greatness was not likely to outlast the existing generation, seeing that the Romans had no hope of issue at home, and they did not intermarry with their neighbours. So then, by the advice of the senators, Romulus sent around ambassadors to the neighbouring states, to solicit an alliance and the right of intermarriage ...
— Roman History, Books I-III • Titus Livius
... her lover was one of those healthy and assured ties that often outlast the ardors of more passionate natures. For other temperaments it might have been inadequate; but theirs matched perfectly, and it was all sufficient for them. If there was within Kate's range a more heroic ...
— Malbone - An Oldport Romance • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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