Continuance Quotes

• The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Point
  • Continuance

• Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Men
  • Works
  • Continuance

• My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Breathing
  • Resist