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«A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.»
«Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Jealousy,
Liberty
| Keywords:
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«A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
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carving, carvings, ruined, thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, turkey
«Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
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«Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.»
«His form had yet not lost / All her original brightness, nor appeared / Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess / Of glory obscured.»
«A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
old woman, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, ruined, sensitivity, viewer, viewers, young girl
«A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.»
«For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abstractions, connected, immensity, inseparably, intensity, public figure, ruined, spiritual world, The Spiritual
«It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.»
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