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> [Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-basil/drunkenness-the-ruin-of-reason-the-destruction-of-strength-premature/)

[Saint Basil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-basil/)

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> [There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/there-are-persons-whose-only-merit-consists-in-saying-and-doing/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-montgomery/and-thou-vast-ocean-on-whose-awful-face-time-s-iron-feet-can-print-no/)

[Robert Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-montgomery/)

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> [I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-brautigan/i-thought-about-it-for-awhile-hiding-it-from-the-rest-of-my-mind-but/)

[Richard Brautigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-brautigan/)

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> [As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-cowper/as-creeping-ivy-clings-to-wood-or-stone-and-hides-the-ruin-that-it/)

[William Cowper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-cowper/)

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> [Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/thus-strangely-are-our-souls-constructed-and-by-slight-ligaments-are/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/ruin-has-taught-me-to-ruminate-that-time-will-come-and-take-my-love/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-dean-morgan/as-a-matter-of-fact-it-ll-probably-ruin-my-movie-career-but-i-think/)

[Jeffrey Dean Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-dean-morgan/)

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> [Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-hughes/rock-n-roll-is-a-young-form-people-over-twenty-five-ruin-it-this/)

[John Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-hughes/)

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> [I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons. It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-jarmusch/i-hate-those-live-action-versions-of-animated-cartoons-it-ruins/)

[Jim Jarmusch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-jarmusch/)

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> [Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton/knowledge-forbidden-suspicious-reasonless-why-should-their-lord-envy/)

[John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-milton/)

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> [No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/no-matter-what-precautions-we-take-no-matter-how-well-we-have-put/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-schmid/how-often-have-we-all-come-to-that-crucial-point-in-a-painting-where/)

[Richard Schmid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-schmid/)

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> [ It was entirely due to my mother \[a devout Buddhist\] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chiang-kai-shek/it-was-entirely-due-to-my-mother-a-devout-buddhist-and-her-kindness/)

[Chiang Kai-shek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chiang-kai-shek/)

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> [Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-kubler-ross/think-of-a-lifeless-forest-in-which-a-small-plant-pushes-its-head/)

[Elisabeth Kubler-Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-kubler-ross/)

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> [The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/the-very-utterness-of-the-crash-and-ruin-the-desperation-of-the-case/)

[Rose Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-macaulay/)

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> [Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-che/maybe-i-m-naive-but-i-still-have-a-little-bit-of-faith-in-the/)

[Michael Che](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-che/)

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> [What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/what-cities-as-great-as-this-have-promised-themselves-immortality/)

[Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/)

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> [What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/what-if-one-happens-to-be-possessed-of-a-heart-that-can-t-be-trusted/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

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> [You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/you-could-hear-the-wind-in-the-leaves-and-on-that-wind-traveled-the-3/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-hill/they-told-of-dripping-stone-walls-in-uninhabited-castles-and-of-ivy/)

[Susan Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-hill/)

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> [“When the team excavated, they uncovered the shattered ruins of a fortress, over fifteen centuries old, with massive walls and eight towers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-preston/when-the-team-excavated-they-uncovered-the-shattered-ruins-of-a/)

[Douglas Preston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-preston/)

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> [Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-wisse/women-s-liberation-if-not-the-most-extreme-then-certainly-the-most/)

Ruth Wisse

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> [Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-angell-james/every-woman-whether-rich-or-poor-married-or-single-has-a-circle-of/)

[John Angell James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-angell-james/)

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> [“good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-carnegie/good-thinking-deals-with-causes-and-effects-and-leads-to-logical/)

[Dale Carnegie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-carnegie/)

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> [Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/twenty-years-of-romance-makes-a-woman-look-like-a-ruin-but-twenty/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Over thinking is literally a gate way to negative thoughts and can often dictate one's entire life. Take this life easy guys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kemmy-nola/over-thinking-is-literally-a-gate-way-to-negative-thoughts-and-can/)

[Kemmy Nola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kemmy-nola/)

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> [An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/an-enemy-can-partly-ruin-a-man-but-it-takes-a-good-natured/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/that-is-the-way-to-lay-the-city-flat-to-bring-the-roof-to-the/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/if-there-be-not-a-religious-element-in-the-relations-of-men-such/)

[Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/)

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> [Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-eugenides/some-cities-have-fallen-into-ruin-and-some-are-built-upon-ruins-but/)

[Jeffrey Eugenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-eugenides/)

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> [The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-colson/the-bible-s-historical-accuracy-is-a-reminder-that-while-the-heavens/)

[Charles Colson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-colson/)

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> [If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophocles/if-you-are-out-of-trouble-watch-for-danger-and-when-you-live-well/)

[Sophocles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophocles/)

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> [A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edvard-grieg/a-landscape-torn-by-mists-and-clouds-in-which-i-can-see-ruins-of-old/)

[Edvard Grieg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edvard-grieg/)

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> [“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/who-can-know-how-much-of-his-most-inward-life-is-made-up-of-the/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-maberry/i-ve-managed-to-stay-alive-out-here-in-the-ruin-because-i-m-a-realist/)

[Jonathan Maberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-maberry/)

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> ['The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benedict-joseph-labre/the-want-of-proper-examination-true-contrition-and-a-firm-purpose-of/)

[Benedict Joseph Labre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benedict-joseph-labre/)

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> [Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-fullerton-whitman/records-can-ruin-you-that-s-why-it-s-important-to-be-as-intimately/)

[Keith Fullerton Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-fullerton-whitman/)

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> [The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-johnstone/the-problem-s-always-been-to-deal-with-the-fear-cos-the-fear-is/)

[Keith Johnstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-johnstone/)

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> [The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-da-vinci/the-painter-s-mind-is-a-copy-of-the-divine-mind-since-it-operates/)

[Leonardo da Vinci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-da-vinci/)

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                        "text": "Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?",
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                        "text": "Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!",
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