Quotes with destroyer—and

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jeremy Collier How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Samuel G. Goodrich How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
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  • Bradley Denton How many members of the fleshbound masses do you think will listen to him? He's making sense, and they don't respond to that.
    Source: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Anna Held How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke a day sir? Pack! What a little puss. Gosh, why don't you just put a dress on and show it all to us while you smoke your little faggoty pack. C'mon, swish around for us. Damnit that pisses me off. I go through two lighters a day, dude. I'm starting to feel it.
    Source: Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Edith Wharton How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Olympia Brown How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
    Olympia Brown
    American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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  • Alexander Pope How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Anna Freud How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • William E. Rothschild How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
    William E. Rothschild
    American author (1933 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Carlo Collodi How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
    Source: Adventures of Pinocchio. Ediz. Illustrata (2012 edition), Edimedia
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
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  • Alexander Pope How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • John Milton How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas à Kempis How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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