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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. ↗

— Ben Okri

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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. ↗

— Ovid

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. ↗

— Ovid

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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. ↗

— Paracelsus

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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ↗

— Plautus

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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

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Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. ↗

— Sophocles

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ↗