The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Growth everywhere neutralizes decay. So long as we keep growing, renewing the mind, constantly reaching out for the new and progressive, the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet:… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. Whats wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“A lot of things in the house were broken or forgotten: the kitchen clock stopped, a closet doorknob coming off in my… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point?… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
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