"The minds of men are mirrors to one……" — David Hume

More Decay Quotes

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• Progress, this great heresy of decay. — Charles Baudelaire
• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
• The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in… — Annie Besant
• Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. — Ambrose Bierce
• All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of… — Theodor Adorno
• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning
• A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott
• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation… — Richard Burton
• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of… — John C. Calhoun
• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of… — Maurice Chevalier
• The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay,… — Frederick William Robertson

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