Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
Oscar Wilde
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck
She's had little problems here and there in her races. She has no withers, so her saddle has slipped sometimes. In another start, the (assistant) starter grabbed her right ear. So, it's been little things here and there. But today we tried to get it all together, and she did.
Ron Mcanally
There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
Friedrich Engels
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
Joseph Priestley
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
Susanne Curchod Necker
As the flow of subliterary "news items" and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only character.
Brian Moore
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only dec.
Rosa Luxemburg
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