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absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Sweet death, small son, our instrument by Donald Hall

Sweet death, small son, our instrument

Donald Hall
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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.

E. F. Schumacher
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All that in this world is great or gay, by Edmund Spenser

All that in this world is great or gay,

Edmund Spenser
decaygayworld
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominio... by Edgar Allan Poe

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Edgar Allan Poe
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Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

Ellen G. White
decayprinciplesuse

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

Ellen Glasgow
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outwa... by Ellen Glasgow

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

Ellen Glasgow
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As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

Emily James Smith Putnam
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The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays. by Eric G. Wilson

The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

Eric G. Wilson
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People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Eric Hoffer
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decay... by Ezra Pound

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Ezra Pound
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I sorrow that all fair things must decay. by Fitz-Greene Halleck

I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

Fitz-Greene Halleck
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and t... by Francesca Annis

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Francesca Annis
decayacceptingfirsts
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the... by Francis Bacon

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Francis Bacon
decayplotage

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

Freya Stark
decaymattercivilization

Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

Garik Israelian
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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Garrett Hardin
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. by Gary Oldman

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Gary Oldman
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