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• Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Men, Evil

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• Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Poverty, Redistribution Of Wealth

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Giving, World

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Bible, Money

  "Parents still tell kids to save money. That's really obsolete". Interview with Nastassia Arendse, citizen.co.za. March 8, 2017.

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• The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.

  Jacques Roumain

  Music, Song, Father

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• Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

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• Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

  George Barrell Cheever

  Procrastination, Men, Nurse

  George Barrell Cheever (1855). “Windings of the river of the water of life: in the development, discipline, and fruits of faith”, p.48

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• It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Shining, Lovely

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Winter, Men

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.170

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• I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Nice, Land, Insanity

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.10, Macmillan

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• She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Men, Soul, Body

  Guy de Maupassant (1923). “The Works of Guy de Maupassant”

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• O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest me hast deceived me." This very same thing I myself now suffer, wretched and miserable, when I do not desire to be humbled, and to say with my whole soul that I myself am guilty of my perdition. But on the contrary I say: "That person over there inspired me to do or say this. He advised me and knocked me off the path." Woe is my poor soul which speaks such words filled with sin! O most shameless and irrational words of a shameless and irrational soul!

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Humility, Soul, Suffering

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• For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Strong, Ambition, Medicine

  James Elroy Flecker, James Hogg (1976). “The Leysin Version of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan”

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• I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, Apples, Way

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• And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Horse, Two, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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• Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, One Love, Broads

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Loss, Winning

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

  Deborah Sampson

  Errors, Female, Done

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• Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

  Aeschylus

  Men, Hands, Justice

  Aeschylus (2004). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, Everyman's Library

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• I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.

  John Adams

  Men, Catholic, Earth

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.219

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• The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Slavery, Way, Strife

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• Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

  Rebecca West

  Men, People, Victory

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• The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost... There is no Authority civil or religious: there can be no legitimate Government but what is administered by this Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All, without it is Rebellion and Perdition, or in more orthodox words Damnation.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religious, Government

  John Adams' letter to Benjamin Rush (December 21, 1809), as quoted in "No, Mr. Beck, John Adams Did Not Think Governments Must Be Administered by the Holy Ghost" by Chris Rodda, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

  Edward Young

  Men, Guilt, Lasts

  Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.42

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