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Letter "D" » declines
«He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.»
«If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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atrophied, atrophies, atrophy, decays, declines
«Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.»
«Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.»
«Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.»
«Every fair from fair sometime declines»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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