Best Ruin Sayings
1011 Ruin quotes by 721 unique authors
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
— Walter Raleigh
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And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which…
— Charles Dickens
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you…
— C.S. Lewis
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If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty…
— Mike Cloud
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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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 ruin of souls.'
— Benedict Joseph Labre
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Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
— Angela Merici
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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.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
— John Tillotson
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The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is…
— George William Curtis
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A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of…
— George Schaller
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Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be…
— David Brin
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Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
— Benjamin Franklin
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Success will ruin your life.
— Tom Clancy
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We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be…
— Al Gore
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People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong…
— Robert Southwell
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Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their…
— William E. Rees
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Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.
— Thomas Gray
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
— John Milton
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Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and,…
— Samuel Adams
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