Perish Quotes
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.
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If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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If we do not act together, we will surely perish.
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
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Do what is right, though the world may perish.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish.
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Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.
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Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.
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The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
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When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.
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Those who know when it is enough will not perish.
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Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!
