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perishing
«Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.»
«We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called ''usefulness'' is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.»
«Must then Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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age, christ, perish, perishing, save, torment, tormenting
«Not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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multitudes, oddest, perished, perishing
«We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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as it were, habitation, insensibility, intermediate, perishing, stability, subdued, The Passion, veil