Withers Quotes
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual
withers, and the world is more and more.
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More Withers Quotes
Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
J.G. Priestly— "The Disillusioned", in The Balconinny, and Other Essays ([1929] 1969) p. 30.
Der Staat wird nicht 'abgeschafft', er stirbt ab. The state is not 'abolished'; it withers away.
Friedrich Engels— 1878 Anti-Du« hring, pt.3, ch.2.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
pearl buck— "To You on Your First Birthday"
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.
Reginald Heber— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213.
Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.
Georges Bernanos— p.88 (La joie (Joy) 1929)
The state is not “abolished,” it withers away.
Friedrich Engels— Anti-Dühring, pt. 3, ch. 2 (1878)
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
rosa luxemburg— Reported in Paul Froelich, Die Russiche Revolution (1940).
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs rethinking the world isn't an option.
pz myers— "The man with two 'duh's in his name", Pharyngula, 3 April 2008
Heaven gave him all at once; then snatched away, ere mortals all his beauties could survey. Just like the flower that buds and withers in a day.
john dryden— John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas.
Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons: Spring, line 283 (1728).
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
— Rosa Luxemburg, Reported in Paul Froelich, Die Russiche Revolution (1940).
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
— Rosa Luxemburg, Reported in Paul Froelich, Die Russiche Revolution (1940).
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.
— Reginald Heber, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 213
My God, I ask not of Thee the leaves of external consequence; I will be content to continue simple, lowly, and plain, if Thou wilt only give me grace to serve Thee and my neighbor. Outward pomp withers like a flower, but inward worth lasts even after death.
— Christian Scriver, p. 334. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
— George MacDonald, p. 439. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.
— Rosa Luxemburg, Reported in Paul Froelich, Die Russiche Revolution (1940).
Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
— J. B. Priestley, "The Disillusioned", 1929; in The Balconinny, and Other Essays, 1969, p. 30.
