Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that m...
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Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it. Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
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James 1:11:
For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.
(NIV)
For the sun comes up with a scorching heat and parches the grass; its flower falls off and its beauty fades away. Even so will the rich man wither and die in the midst of his pursuits. [Isa. 40:6, 7.](AMP)
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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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.
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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.
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Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
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Isaiah 40:8:
'The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.'
(NIV)
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. [James 1:10, 11; I Pet. 1:24, 25.](AMP)
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
(KJV)
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A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.
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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
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Age withers only the outside.
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