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  • Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

    Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics
  • Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

  • On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

    Grief   Heart   Past  
  • The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.

    Adversity   Comfort   May  
    Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: The sermons of Mr. Yorick”, p.420
  • There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.

    Nature   Winter   Night  
    Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.184
  • Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

    Memories   Regret   Night  
    Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.367, Race Point Pub
  • Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

    Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.73, Xist Publishing
  • No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

    Matter   Laurels   Leafs  
    Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Three Quatrains”
  • Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

    Fall   Exercise   Autumn  
    Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

  • The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

    Lonely   Horse   Winter  
    Prufrock (1917) "Preludes"
  • A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

    'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'
  • Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

    Love   Life   Happiness  
    Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), January 13, 2003.
  • Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

    Spring   Winter   Wind  
    'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65
  • O'er hill and field October's glories fade; O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly; The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade, Where naked branches make a fitful shade, And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

    Lying   Autumn   Branches  
    George Arnold, “October”
  • Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

    Beautiful   Regret   Fall  
  • Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

    "Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough".
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