How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
Whether we give away too much or too little of ourselves, our vitality dwindles.
Science grows and Beauty dwindles.
As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.
Whatever you put your attention on becomes energized. Whatever you take your attention away from dwindles
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
Love dwindles by pairing.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.