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> [Idleness ruins the constitution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/idleness-ruins-the-constitution/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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> [Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-joyce/time-s-ruins-build-eternity-s-mansions/)

[James Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-joyce/)

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> [Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dryden/resolved-to-ruin-or-to-rule-the-state/)

[John Dryden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dryden/)

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> [We live ruins amid ruins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-live-ruins-amid-ruins/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Success has ruin'd many a man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/success-has-ruin-d-many-a-man/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beverly-sills/why-let-one-high-c-ruin-your-whole-evening/)

[Beverly Sills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beverly-sills/)

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> [The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-blake/the-ruins-of-time-build-mansions-in-eternity/)

[William Blake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-blake/)

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> [Success will ruin your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-clancy/success-will-ruin-your-life/)

[Tom Clancy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-clancy/)

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> [Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/can-you-please-crawl-out-your-window-use-your-arms-and-your-legs-it/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

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> [Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/men-ruin-themselves-headlong-for-unworthy-women/)

[Wilkie Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilkie-collins/)

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> [I feel like sometimes that ruins a horror movie - seeing what's scary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellie-rowsell/i-feel-like-sometimes-that-ruins-a-horror-movie-seeing-what-s-scary/)

[Ellie Rowsell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellie-rowsell/)

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> [I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-handler/i-d-ruin-any-day-all-my-days-for-those-long-nights-with-you-and-i-did/)

[Daniel Handler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-handler/)

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> [“Even ruins turn into gardens. Even our silence learns the song.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andreea-daiana/even-ruins-turn-into-gardens-even-our-silence-learns-the-song/)

[Andreea Daiana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andreea-daiana/)

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> [Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-maxwell/negative-thinking-creates-clouds-at-critical-decision-times/)

[John C. Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-maxwell/)

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> [Like all good ruins, I look better by moonlight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phyllis-diller/like-all-good-ruins-i-look-better-by-moonlight/)

[Phyllis Diller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phyllis-diller/)

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> [Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/out-of-some-persistent-sense-of-large-scale-ruin-we-kept-inventing/)

[Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/)

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> [Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-quarles/pleasures-bring-effeminacy-and-effeminacy-foreruns-ruin-such/)

[Francis Quarles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-quarles/)

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> [If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-slate/if-you-make-a-careless-choice-you-can-really-ruin-things-and-it-can/)

[Jenny Slate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-slate/)

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> [The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-stuever/the-fastest-way-to-bring-financial-ruin-upon-yourself-is-to-go-for-a/)

[Hank Stuever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-stuever/)

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> [When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/when-it-comes-to-world-news-attitude-is-what-marks-the-distinction/)

[Criss Jami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/criss-jami/)

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> [Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-s-truman/three-things-ruin-a-man-power-money-and-women-i-never-wanted-power-i/)

[Harry S. Truman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-s-truman/)

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> [Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-carleton/worm-or-beetle-drought-or-tempest-on-a-farmer-s-land-may-fall-each-is/)

[Will Carleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-carleton/)

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> [It takes a lot of strength and patience for one to invest time and effort in rebuilding ruins. But it's another chance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-matobo/it-takes-a-lot-of-strength-and-patience-for-one-to-invest-time-and/)

[Frank Matobo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-matobo/)

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> [As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/as-a-splendid-palace-deserted-by-its-inmates-looks-like-a-ruin-so/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-phillips/as-a-writer-myself-my-job-has-very-often-been-to-also-write-on-the/)

[Sally Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-phillips/)

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> [I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-frey/i-close-my-eyes-and-i-take-a-deep-breath-and-i-think-about-my-life/)

[James Frey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-frey/)

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> [There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ervin-seale/there-is-one-recurring-persistent-perennial-and-dogging-personal/)

[Ervin Seale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ervin-seale/)

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> [If the case be such indeed, that all mankind are by nature in a state of total ruin, then, doubtless,the great salvation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-edwards/if-the-case-be-such-indeed-that-all-mankind-are-by-nature-in-a-state/)

[Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-edwards/)

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> [Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophocles/henceforth-ye-may-thieve-with-better-knowledge-whence-lucre-should-be/)

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

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> [But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/but-fear-no-more-i-would-not-take-this-thing-if-it-lay-by-the-highway/)

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

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> [“Decker went to Greece a few summers ago and showed me pictures from his trip. "Aren't these awesome?" he had said, pointing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-miranda/decker-went-to-greece-a-few-summers-ago-and-showed-me-pictures-from/)

[Megan Miranda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-miranda/)

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> [As a person progresses along the path of power, they attract certain forces and beings from other dimensions, who feel the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/as-a-person-progresses-along-the-path-of-power-they-attract-certain/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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> [“Walls are more than stone and mortar. They are silent sentinels, their eyes following every movement, their mouths sealed yet harboring countless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monika-ajay-kaul/walls-are-more-than-stone-and-mortar-they-are-silent-sentinels-their/)

[Monika Ajay Kaul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/monika-ajay-kaul/)

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> [Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donita-k-paul/fine-if-you-see-no-reason-to-worry-about-bisonbecks-who-do-the/)

[Donita K. Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donita-k-paul/)

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> [God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-buechner/god-knows-we-have-our-own-demons-to-be-cast-out-our-own-uncleanness/)

[Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-buechner/)

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> [We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-barrett-browning/we-all-have-known-good-critics-who-have-stamped-out-poet-s-hopes-good/)

[Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-barrett-browning/)

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> [The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garrett-hardin/the-rational-herdsman-concludes-that-the-only-sensible-course-for-him/)

[Garrett Hardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garrett-hardin/)

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> [Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/do-not-be-inaccessible-none-is-so-perfect-that-he-does-not-need-at/)

[Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/)

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> [While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-rush/while-the-business-of-education-in-europe-consists-in-lectures-upon-2/)

[Benjamin Rush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-rush/)

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> [All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/all-of-women-s-stories-in-the-19th-century-had-either-one-of-two/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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                        "text": "God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.",
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                        "text": "We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!",
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                        "text": "The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.",
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