Quotes with mourns

  • Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
  • The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

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  • Jean de la Bruyère Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ben Jonson He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just,
    Shows of the resurrection little trust.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio XXXIV, Of Death, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Karl Kraus Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Wordsworth The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • William Wordsworth The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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