I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to bla….
An urban novelist never minds a little decay..
All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee..
What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?.
Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay..
God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without q….
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity….
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within….
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay..
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order..
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 ….
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay..
Where wealth accumulates, men decay..
Wealth accumulates, and men decay..
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time..