Ruin Quotes
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Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
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You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!
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If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.
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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
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The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
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Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
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Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
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Help means ruin and saving means slaying.
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Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
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One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.
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If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
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I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.
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For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn't even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.
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Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.
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By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.
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If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.
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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.
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Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
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Don’t get angry, she said, try to reflect: what does a woman of your understanding feel at the idea that her happiness becomes the ruin of someone else?
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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
