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• Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Body, Principles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stopping, Laziness, Idle

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.33

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• Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.

  Saadi

  Speed, Accomplish, Objects

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• Despair ruins some, presumption many.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Despair, Presumption

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

  William Shakespeare

  Cities, Foundation, Way

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.67, Hackett Publishing

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• You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Secret, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.126, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Idleness ruins the constitution

  Ovid

  Constitution, Idleness

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• A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ivy, Wife, Ancient

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• Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Names, Passing Away

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

  Robert Burns

  Fate, Weight, Daisies

  Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.79

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• Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.

  Michelangelo

  Stress, Mind, Sculpture

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• A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Honor, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”

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• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

  Robert Montgomery

  Ocean, Iron, Feet

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• Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

  Francis Quarles

  Hatred, Division, Scandal

  Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.49

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• He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

  Francis Quarles

  Desire, Tongue, Secrecy

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.5

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• Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

  Henri Matisse

  Painting

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• Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

  Samuel Rogers

  Twilight, Games, Play

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Spring, Rain, Winter

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• If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.

  Jules Michelet

  Marriage, Wife, Wish

  Jules Michelet (1859). “Love: ("L'amour.")”, p.55

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• In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Heart, Long

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Passion, Loss, Gambling

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• The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Self, Drunk, Touching

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• Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

  Yeardley Smith

  Smoking, Alcohol, Chinese

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• To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Effort, Shadow, Wrecks

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Art, Fall, Teaching

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