#decay

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. ↗

— Henry Miller

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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. ↗

— Prince

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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

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Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. ↗

— Sallust

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. ↗

— Sallust

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The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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