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• I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.

  Robertson Davies

  Intelligent, Emotional, Thinking

  "The Pleasures of Love". 1961.

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• A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Religion, Wicked

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• The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

  Aldous Huxley

  Time, Intuition, Duration

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Civilization

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• When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.

  Washington Irving

  Rome, Purple, Waste

  Washington Irving (1983). “History, Tales, and Sketches”, p.1011, Library of America

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• Still I made one excuse after another, and Jesus would answer, 'Go, and I will be with you'... Then Jesus said again, 'Go, and I will be with you.' I cried, 'Lord, I will go. Where shall I go?' And Jesus said, 'Go here, go there, wherever souls are perishing.' Praise the Lord for his wonderful goodness in revealing his word and will in such a wonderful way, to such a poor weak worm of the dust. I saw more in that vision than I could have learned in years of hard study. Praise His Holy Name. I saw that I must not depend on anything that I could do, but to look to Him for strength and wisdom.

  Maria Woodworth-Etter

  Jesus, Dust, Years

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Democracies Have

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• We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patriotic, Civil War, Politics

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

  Emilia Fox

  Hollywood, Roles, Wonderful

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• If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also implying the perishing quality of a morning in May, and a good description of May sets up the possibility of a May disaster.

  Clark Blaise

  Morning, Quality, Bud

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• She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .

  Khaled Hosseini

  Fire, Looks, Ends

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• In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Running, Art, Memories

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.117, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Fate, Men, Unjust

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?

  Virginia Woolf

  Stars, Hero, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.28, Virginia Woolf

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• She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?

  Wallace Stevens

  Death, Mother, Dream

  Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”

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• The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, World

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

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• All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

  Ellen G. White

  Soul, World, Riches

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.1722, Lulu Press, Inc

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• That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Patriotic, Government

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

  Milan Kundera

  Culture, Avalanches, Madness

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". 1988.

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• The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Church, World, Want

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• Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Communication, Lightning, Genius

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1867). “On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench”, p.24

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• The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

  Anaxagoras

  Life, Science, Greek

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• He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

  Richard Matheson

  Book, Men, Mind

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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