To harmonize the One with the Many this is indeed a difficult adjustment perhaps the most difficult of all and so important withal that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Property is unstable and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas the conduct of mankind is surprising.

If my survival caused another to perish then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

For as long as this nation has known war we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder.

The English Bible - a book which if everything else in our language should perish would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.