Bane Quotes - Page 5

• You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

  Cassandra Clare

  Causes, Life Is, Magnus Bane

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• The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Ruins, Interest

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• To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?

  Angela Carter

  Men, Two, Giving

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• Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.

  Paul David Tripp

  Self, Grace, Christ

  Paul David Tripp (2007). “A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You”, p.105, David C Cook

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