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The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. — Alice Cary
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. — Aristotle
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed… — Thomas B. Macaulay
It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell… — Christopher Hitchens
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. — Benjamin Franklin
Success has ruined many a man. — Benjamin Franklin
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.… — Samuel Johnson
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
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. — Pat Conroy
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already. — Lin Yutang
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. — Hannah More
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that… — Thomas Merton
The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother… — Calvin Trillin
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined. — Leslie Caron
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on… — Jo Nesbo
I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but… — Kelly Osbourne
I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go… — Jonathan Pryce
I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been… — Anna Paquin
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. — Ted Rall
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore. — Lorene Scafaria
Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with… — Carol Vorderman
Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming. — Chevy Chase
I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man… — Pericles

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