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Letter "D" » decline
«When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection his decline begins»
«The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| Keywords:
alleviated, alleviates, appreciation, customary, decline, evidently, faculties, irritability, isolation, rarest, tact, The Decline, thoughtfulness
«Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: / Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.»
«When, in the decline of Life, I gratify the fond wish of my heart in retiring from public labors, and find the language of approbation and fervent prayers for future happiness following that event, my heart expands with gratitude and my feelings beco»
«We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.»
«The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Nations
| Keywords:
decline, indicated, indicates, indicating, literature, The Decline
«The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
decline, downward, indicates, keep pace
«We think there is a parallel between the Federal involvement in education and the decline in quality over recent years.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
decline, decline in quality, Federal, involvement, most recent, parallel, recent, The Decline, The Federal
«The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
accessible, decline, fruits, religious belief, religious beliefs, The Decline, widespread
«We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
bricklaying, decline, exposition, Expositions, inscrutable, rhyme, scientific theory, The Building, workings
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