Careful Words

indestructible (adj.)

They sin who tell us love can die;

With life all other passions fly,

All others are but vanity.

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Love is indestructible,

Its holy flame forever burneth;

From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

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It soweth here with toil and care,

But the harvest-time of love is there.

Robert Southey (1774-1843): The Curse of Kehama. Canto x. Stanza 10.

  The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

Salmon P Chase (1808-1873): Decision in Texas v. White, 7 Wallace, 725.