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  • Nothing subsists, nothing endures but life itself, endlessly self-renewed, endlessly one, through the endless divergencies of its manifestations.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • Where there is rain enough to effect any damage, there is sure to be sufficient vegetation to interpose a living and self-renewed covering between the rocks and the rain.

    Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873

  • In finely pulverised platinum, and even in spongy platinum, we therefore possess a perpetuum mobile -- a mechanism like a watch which runs out and winds itself up -- a force which is never exhausted -- competent to produce effects of the most powerful kind, and self-renewed ad infinitum.

    Familiar Letters on Chemistry Justus Freiherr von Liebig 1838

  • a new spring it shall be adorned with living flowers that fade not away, perennial and self-renewed.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

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