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Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ↗

— Thomas Moore

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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. ↗

— Quintilian

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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ↗

— Jesus Christ

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But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. ↗

— Walter Scott

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The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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