Blighted Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are…
— Frederick William Robertson
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.
— Norman Douglas
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The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever…
— Charles Dickens
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The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,…
— H P Lovecraft
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The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
— John W. Gardner
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
— Camille Paglia
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and…
— Iain Duncan Smith
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The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,…
— Harlan Ellison
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How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O,…
— Thomas Hardy
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Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like…
— Thomas Hardy
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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
— Thomas Hardy
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The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
— Mercedes Lackey
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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
— Christopher Morley
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is,…
— Jasper Fforde
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We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?
— Louise Penny
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How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn’s gift?†“No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there,…
— Richelle Mead
Who Wrote These Blighted Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Blighted Quotes as follows: