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But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor… — John Denham
A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history. — Abram Joseph Ryan
God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
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
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins. — Norm MacDonald
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes… — Eric Liddell
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Unknown Author
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
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
'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
Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways. — Angela Merici
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. — Seneca the Younger
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. — John Tillotson
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
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
Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'. — Steven Morrissey
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
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
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures.… — Bill Brandt
Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy ! — Benjamin Franklin
Success will ruin your life. — Tom Clancy
Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making. — William Shatner
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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