Spoil Quotes - Page 17

• Rich with the spoils of time.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Rich

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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• Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Memories

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Time, Eye, Soul

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

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• We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

  Sherry Turkle

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Sin, Unhappiness

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Government, Hands

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Heart, Clouds

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.151, Hendrickson Publishers

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• We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Boys, Unhappy

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Selfishness, Plans

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• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

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