Quotes with perish

  • It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
  • Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
  • 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.
  • Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay 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
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Alfred Noyes 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
    English poet, short-story writer and playwright (1880 - 1958)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Ben Okri 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
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Will Durant Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Francis Thompson For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Virginia Woolf Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Aldous Huxley If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sagan It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Robert Collier It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Ferdinand I Let justice be done, though the world perish.
    Original: Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
    Latin
    Ferdinand I
    Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1503 - 1564)
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  • Samuel Butler Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Adolf Hitler Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Rebecca West Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Francis Thompson Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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