The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering:… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips… — Jack Kerouac 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
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Sentenced to fade under the weight of external pressures—the eternal cycle of life at its most poignant. Whether we embrace it or… — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is… — John Donne Copy Share Image
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system… — John Goodlad Copy Share Image
You made me throw it all away, my morals left to decay, how many you betray. — Nine Inch Nails Copy Share Image
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for… — John Berridge Copy Share Image
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
