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101 " Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die. "
― B.R. Ambedkar
102 " Outside there's a chill in the air that reminds me autumn is on the way, even though it's still only September. This time of year is my absolute favourite; the leaves start to turn golden and wither away after their summer of hard work, and the sun seems to shine a lot more clearly as the mist from the summer heat disappears. Everything just seems a little brighter and fresher--a clean slate. That's exactly what I need. "
― Zoe Sugg , Going Solo (Girl Online, #3)
103 " But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark. "
― Mike Mignola , Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places
104 " Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety. "
105 " I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair. "
106 " Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they feed but she makes hungry where most she satisfies. "
107 " Lastly, Spurgeon reminds us that piety and devotion to Christ are not preferable alternatives to controversy, but rather that they should - when circumstances demand it - lead to the latter. He was careful to maintain that order. The minister who makes controversy his starting point will soon have a blighted ministry and spirituality will wither away. But controversy which is entered into out of love for God and reverence for His Name, will wrap a man's spirit in peace and joy even when he is fighting in the thickest of battle. The piety which Spurgeon admired was not that of a cloistered pacifism but the spirit of men like William Tyndale and Samuel Rutherford who, while contending for Christ, could rise heavenwards, jeopardizing 'their lives unto the death in the high places of the field'. At the height of his controversies Spurgeon preached some of the most fragrant of all his sermons. "
― Iain H. Murray
108 " Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "
― James Joyce , The Dead
109 " Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die. "
110 " My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. "