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stagnates

«If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel.»
«I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.»
«Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.»
«I have no one to whom I can talk upon such matters. I am all driven inwards, and thought turns sour when one lets it stagnate like that.»
«If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.»
«What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.»
«Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world»
«The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.»