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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Richard Burton

Life Friendship True Friendship New Life Walls Ruins Embraces Object Gives Animation True New Supports Like False Ivy Decay

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mind Our Secure Security Becomes Tradition Decay

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. Niccolo Machiavelli

Religion Country Sign See Rites Contempt Surer Than Decay Held

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. Ramana Maharshi

Death Emotions Personality Mind Will Vanish Also Because Am Nor Brain Decay Decaying Body Who Who Am I

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

Great Small Things Great Things Harmony Small Makes Decay Lack Grow Things

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. Ernst Fischer

Art Faith Change World Reflect Society Changeable Unless Must Also Truthful Decay Decaying Break Wants Social Show Help Function

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. Montesquieu

Government Deterioration Almost Principles Always Begins Decay

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least. George Whitefield

Sad Together Christianity Neglecting Ourselves Religious True Perhaps Least Decay May Reasons Many Assemble Among Societies

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. John C. Calhoun

Old Confusion Interval Wild Must Uncertainty Between New Period Always Error Decay Establishment Fanaticism Formation Which Fierce Transition Necessarily

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald

Life Age Within Fresh Decay Bursts Swelling

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. Maurice Chevalier

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Joseph Addison

Passion Immediately Admiration Object Very Familiar Decay Short-Lived Growing

Doctors look after me. But, basically, I look after myself. I don't overeat. I don't develop a big paunch. I do a little bit of exercise. At the same time, I believe that if you don't work, you will decay. The decay process is through not using your faculties - not using your brain, not using your body. Mahathir Mohamad

Work Time Myself Me You Will Doctors Big Believe Bit Through Faculties Develop Look Overeat Exercise Brain Decay Same Same Time After Process Little Little Bit Body Your Your Body Using Basically

Progress, this great heresy of decay. Charles Baudelaire

Great Progress Decay Heresy

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

Nation Decay Literature

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. Gary Oldman

Me Reality TV Decay Social Reality TV Museum

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. John Updike

Alone Late Dare Writers Go Bloom Decay May Early Incorrigible

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both. Anne Roiphe

Reality Dramatic Our Ghastly Our Lives Dreadful Both Between Most Quiet Decay Them Much Explosion Choose Lives Sufficient Two

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it. Annie Besant

Mother First Every Constantly Reconstruction Undergoing Fresh Built Passing Continually Materials Womb Up Decay Human Tiny Form Human Body Process Body Molecules Moment Away Streaming

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. Arthur Middleton

God Religion Generation Country Rising General Know Because Decay Who

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