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Perish discretion when it interferes with duty -- Hannah Moore
Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge! -- Cyrano de Bergerac
Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified. -- Philip Doddridge
Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly. -- Philip II of Macedon
All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish. -- Felix Wantang
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests Horus. -- Rick Riordan
Who's out there?" I say."Just teenagers," my father says."Why are they like that?""That's just the way they are.""Will I be like that when I grow up?""You? Perish the thought. -- Joshua Gaylord
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this -- Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have nothing to do always lack time. Perish all those who do not think as we do. Reason is a feeble weapon in contending with a woman. Words that sounded kindly, but with a cold, unloving heart. -- Georg Ebers
Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been. -- Matthew Arnold
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. -- H. G. Wells
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. -- Will Durant
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. -- Erwin Schrodinger
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. -- Samuel Butler
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. -- Khalil Gibran
Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs. -- Fred DeLuca
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. -- Abraham Lincoln
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain. -- Chiang Kai-shek
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -- Jesus Christ
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. -- Virginia Woolf
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. -- Richard Owen
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. -- Charlie Chaplin
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! -- Kate Chopin
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. -- Hilaire Belloc
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. -- John Calvin
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. -- Alfred Adler
The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was. -- Hans Jonas
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -- Abraham Lincoln
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. -- Alfred Noyes
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish. -- Terrence McNally
With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive. -- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Thinkers perish, thoughts don't. -- Malcolm Forbes
Without inspiration, we would perish. -- Walt Disney
Love each other or perish -- W. H. Auden
When adults wage war, children perish. -- Elie Wiesel
Those that reach their goals perish. -- Reinhold Messner
Without a vision the people perish. -- Ronald Reagan
In 1957, I decided: write or perish. -- James Salter
Truths that wake To perish never -- William Wordsworth
Follow your heart, and you perish. -- Margaret Laurence
Let freedom never perish in your hands. -- Joseph Addison
I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. -- Daniel J. Bernstein
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish. -- Christopher Marlowe
When there is no vision, people perish. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Favour will as surely perish as life. -- George Herbert
He who dies for virtue does not perish. -- Plautus
Where there is no vision a people perish. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii) -- Robert Harris
The temples perish, but the God still lives. -- Philip James Bailey
So perish all who do the like again. -- Alexander Pope
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. -- Anatole France
When good men die their goodness does not perish. -- Euripides
Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us. -- Eric Hoffer
Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish. -- Emile M. Cioran
All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish. -- Jostein Gaarder
We shall perish by guile just as we slew. -- Aeschylus
No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown. -- John Addington Symonds
Do what is right, though the world may perish. -- Immanuel Kant
He who fears dangers will not perish by them. -- Leonardo da Vinci
We possess art lest we perish of the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not let the hero in your soul perish... -- Ayn Rand
No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. -- Hesiod
Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish. -- Hugh Howey
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done -- Immanuel Kant
Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified -- George Whitefield
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth. -- George Herbert
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. -- Ovid
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. -- Livy
Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish. -- Ambrose of Milan
If we do not act together, we will surely perish. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Those who know when it is enough will not perish. -- Laozi
Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live? -- Emily Dickinson
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die. -- Rosa Parks
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end. -- William Hare
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them. -- Anton Chekhov
The people of this world must unite or they will perish. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery -- Anne Frank
A people that does not protect its racial purity will perish! -- Julius Streicher
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger. -- Seneca the Younger
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. -- Khalil Gibran
The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish. -- Winston Churchill
I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
We must do better or perish as the nation we know today. -- Lauro Cavazos
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish. -- Livy
There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish. -- Julius Nyerere
All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression. -- Luc de Clapiers
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. -- Ayn Rand
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. -- Francois Rabelais
Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. -- Philip K. Dick
Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish. -- Umar
The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. -- Walter Scott
If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish. -- Khalid ibn al-Walid
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. -- Bertrand Russell
If men must beg to live,May the Creator also go wandering and perish. -- Thiruvalluvar
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. -- Gustav Mahler
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them. -- George Bernard Shaw
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish. -- Jules Verne
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. -- Paul Valery
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. -- John Milton
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder -- John B. S. Haldane
I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free. -- David Bowie
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. -- Ayn Rand
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. -- Adolf Hitler
Most of us will perish before knowing who we are and why we came here. -- Debasish Mridha
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes. -- Euripides
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. -- Sophocles

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