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Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety.

William Shakespeare
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Joyce
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust
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We are determined to bring a new audience to opera. If we don't, then I'm afraid the form will wither and die.

Paul Kellogg
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When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

Alex Lowe
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Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.

Donald Grant Mitchell
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Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

Jacqueline Carey
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry
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We cannot sit by and watch the only public lands devoted to wildlife protection wither away. There's simply too much at stake.

Rodger Schlickeisen
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America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership.

Osama Bin Laden
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The idea of allowing youngsters to stay in a school that is just withering on the vine is just terrible.

Steve Sinnott
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I trust that age with not wither, nor custom stale my infinite variety.

Sherlock Holmes
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It's simply not big enough, it's simply not fair, and these animals will wither away and die if not give the proper need and proper room. We have the capability to save these animals' lives.

Corey Feldman
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.

J.r.r. Tolkien
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Without it, we decline, we wither, and somebody else takes our place.

Tracy Koon
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All the non-tech players have been hiding out and making money, but now that's starting to wither away.

Barry Hyman
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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

Alexander Herzen
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We will do whatever we can from the Norwegian side to try and find a solution ... to the present withering situation at the peninsula, and also to the long time settlement of the Tamil aspirations.

Erik Solheim
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