“When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.”
“Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.”
“All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.”
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
“Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a sieve.”
“The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.”