#decay

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. ↗

— Henry Miller

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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. ↗

— Prince

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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

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Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. ↗

— Sallust

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. ↗

— Sallust

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