immutable

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We shall become immutable, and therefore when millions of ages have rolled by, we shall still be enjoying the same happiness as we did when the vision of God first flashed upon tour souls.

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  1. adjective Not subject or susceptible to change.

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  • The Man of Letters has no immutable, all-conquering volition, more than other men; to understand and to perform are two very different things with him as with every one. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life of Friedrich Schiller, by Thomas Carlyle
  • For God, Who is uncreated, immutable, and incorporeal, produced mutable and corporeal creatures for His own goodness. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • Now, what belongs to human nature is contrary to what is proper to God, since God is uncreated, immutable, and eternal, and it belongs to the human nature to be created temporal and mutable. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • In those who speak thus it is the present that is immutable, and knows not how to repair. —  The Buried Temple
  • There is the Law--immutable--menacing; it will find them out and punish And what shall we say to those of another caste of character--the humble-minded, charitable, tolerant, religiously aspiring hearts among the laity, and the unselfish, pure and learned of the priests who know the Precepts and keep them? —  The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons
 

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  1. from Middle English immutable, from Old French immutable, also immuable, French immuable = Spanish inmutable = Portuguese immutavel = Italian immutabile, from Latin immutabilis, inmutabilis, unchangeable, from in- privative + mutabilis, changeable: see mutable.
 

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