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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumu... by Oliver Goldsmith

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith
decay land men
Where wealth accumulates, men decay. by Oliver Goldsmith

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith
decay wealth men
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. by Oliver Goldsmith

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Oliver Goldsmith
decay haste business
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of... by Oscar Wilde

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Oscar Wilde
decay weakness kind
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in... by Ovid

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

Ovid
command empires decay

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

Pat Buchanan
republic decay block

Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.

Paul A. Baran
decay development organization

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
rolling decay rivers

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.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
decay men night

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

Peter Wollen
frozen decay photography
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay. by Philip James Bailey

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Philip James Bailey
decay crumbling ivy
All things are subject to decay and change. by Polybius

All things are subject to decay and change.

Polybius
decay subjects all-things

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

Plato
decay challenges names

What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?

R. D. Laing
decay done song

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

Rabindranath Tagore
decay quality god
The process of transformation consists mostly of decay. by Rebecca Solnit

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

Rebecca Solnit
decay transformation process

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

Reinhold Niebuhr
decay moments civilization

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

Richard Cobden
decay blessing sweet

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

Richard M. Weaver
decay religious wish
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present o... by Richard M. Weaver

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Richard M. Weaver
absorption decay ease
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