"Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old."
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"Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth."
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"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."
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"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
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"All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!"
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"The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples."
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"Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'"
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"Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear."
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"The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay."
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"I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust"
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"The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions."
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"There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe."
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"But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society."
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"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."
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"Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay."
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"An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away."
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"Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay."
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"When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before."
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"By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay."
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"Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still."
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