#perish

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. ↗

— Herman Melville

#eternity #her #hope #loose #perishable

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

— Thomas Moore

#destruction #often #others #perish #plot

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

#civilizations #defined #did #exceptions #few

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

#ask #cannot #cease #did #each

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. ↗

— John Randolph

#once #our #perishable #possessions #time

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. ↗

— Epicurus

#another #evil #forever #god #listened

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #beat #fear #hearts #i

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality. ↗

— James Loeb

#freshness #generation #greek #grow #grow up

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#been #cambodia #camps #chinese #millions

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#education #ignorance #ignorant-people #information #information-is-liberation