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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?
Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.
By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.
It's funny; people in Europe seem more interested in decay in America than Americans.
On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.
You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage.
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.