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• But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Body, Want, Infection

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• People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong or evil or barbaric to listen to the voices of the souls of the world, and so the heart and the nobility of an entire way of life dried up and withered away.

  P. C. Cast

  Believe, Heart, Voice

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.158, Macmillan

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• On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

  Richard Henry Horne

  Grief, Heart, Past

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• Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

  Louise Penny

  Love, Voice, Perfect

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.514, Macmillan

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• An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Marriage, Heart, Hands

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.150

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• Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

  John Gould Fletcher

  Flower, Yellow, Sky

  John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.174, University of Arkansas Press

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• The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
  Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
  In the red west. The green blade of the ground
  Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
  Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
  Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
  And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
  From bursting cells, and in their graves await
  Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
  Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
  That now are still for ever; painted moths
  Have wandered the blue sky, and died again

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Flower, Garden

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Fall, Autumn

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.73, Xist Publishing

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• Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

  Russell Kirk

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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• Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
  May look wrinkled and wet
  And withered, and white as the snow,
  But the taste of a thumb
  Is the sweetest taste yet
  (As only we thumb-sucker's know).

  Shel Silverstein

  White, Snow, Looks

  Shel Silverstein, “Thumbs”

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• Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.

  Matt Groening

  Years, Temptation, Television

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• Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Wind

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65

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• Along the river's summer walk,
  The withered tufts of asters nod;
  And trembles on its arid stalk
  the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Summer, Journey, July

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.208

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• Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gay, Rose, Feelings

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Heart, Ideas, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Deep at the bottom of the well no warmth has yet returned,
  The rain which sighs and feels so cold has dampened withered roots.
  What sort of man at such a time would come to visit the teacher?
  As this is not a time for flowers, I find I've come alone.

  Su Shi

  Teacher, Rain, Flower

  Su Shi, “Visiting The Temple Of Auspicious Fortune Alone On Winter Solstice”

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• The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sad, Lonely, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.542, Simon and Schuster

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• There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Years, Ideas, Intellectual

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Winter, Night

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.184

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• Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

  Alexander Pope

  Winter, Shining, Frost

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.293

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• O'er hill and field October's glories fade;
  O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;
  The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade,
  Where naked branches make a fitful shade,
  And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

  George Arnold

  Lying, Autumn, Branches

  George Arnold, “October”

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• When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winterdecent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weed, Spring, Winter

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• But now mine own eyes have beheld God; but not my natural, but my spiritual eyes, for my natural eyes could not have beheld; for I should have withered and died in his presence; but his glory was upon me; and I beheld his face, for I was transfigured before him.

  Moses

  Spiritual, Eye, Should Have

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• But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Memories, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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