#dissolution

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal. ↗

— William Jay

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Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#christ #dear #dear friend #delight #did

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

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I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem. ↗

— Dixie Carter

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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#eyes #find #fit #follow #forgive

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#dissolution #faith #look #now #once

The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts. ↗

— Otto Bauer

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