#perish

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The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.


Gilbert Highet


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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.


Mary Wollstonecraft


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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.


Alfred Noyes


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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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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.


Thomas Hardy


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