#perish

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ↗

— Thomas Moore

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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. ↗

— Quintilian

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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ↗

— Jesus Christ

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But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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