Ruin Quotes
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
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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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Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.
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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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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
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The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.
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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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Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
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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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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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A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
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If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
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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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Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
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State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.
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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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Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
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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 think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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Ever notice how the more depraved a man is, the more he tries to ruin other people’s fun?
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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.
