"Man seems the only growth that dwindles here." — Oliver Goldsmith

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• Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. — Annie Dillard
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• It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it… — Hugh Miller
• People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their… — Logan Pearsall Smith
• Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament,… — Poul Anderson
• Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This… — Peter Julian Eymard
• Whether we give away too much or too little of ourselves, our vitality dwindles. — Sue Thoele
• You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in… — J. Robbins
• As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must… — Dan Gillerman
• All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from… — Jean de la Bruyere
• Science grows and Beauty dwindles. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For… — Robert Wilson

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