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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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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.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.
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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
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Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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