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• Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

  Rachel Cohn

  Lying, Order, Glare

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• 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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• The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

  Charles Dickens

  Scene, Leafs, Dreary

  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.106

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• The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.

  Walter Scott

  Wind, Long, Way

  Sir Walter Scott, J. W. Lake (1843). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.1

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• For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go to church, you have cured the lame foot. If you draw back your eyes from a harlot ... you have opened them when they were blind ... These are the greatest miracles.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Love, Healing, Eye

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• Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

  Dogen

  Dragons, Tree, Doe

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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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• Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fire, Offering, Flames

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.

  David Sheff

  Children, Kids, Ideas

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
  I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
  Only your presence revives my withered heart.
  You are the candle that lights the whole world
  and I am an empty vessel for your light.

  Rumi

  Flower, Heart, Empty Vessels

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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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• 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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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  John Milton

  Mother, Age, Lap

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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• It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Grief, Cutting

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Years, Weather, Joy

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64

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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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• The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.

  Ivor Gurney

  Song, Track, Clean

  1922 'The Songs I Had'.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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