#perish

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#dark #exercised #gave #himself #his

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#i #perish #publish

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

#against #because #build #business #committed

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#doomed #down #not perfect #perfect #perish

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#above #beasts #been #certain #city

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret. ↗

— Ben Okri

#beautiful #beautiful things #because #best #despair

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. ↗

— Ovid

#fears #man #perish #whom #wishes

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. ↗

— Ovid

#endows #except #go #hearts #i

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. ↗

— Paracelsus

#away #because #fooling #know #our

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ↗

— Plautus

#conduct #death #delay #fangs #grinning