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This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.
Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.
A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.
Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.
We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.
I like Urban Decay lip products, but I don't wear much make-up on a day-to-day basis. I just apply a little mascara on my lashes and some bronzer.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.
If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that.
I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.
America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
When you are captain at the same time, that's when it gets difficult and when your own game starts to decay because you have other worries and pressures.
I masturbate. A lot. And yet, I don't floss because it's too much of a hassle. Ten seconds of joy over a lifetime of tooth decay, that's what I've chosen.
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.