Quotes with destroyer—and

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  • John Ruskin No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Anatole France No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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  • Bernard Mandeville No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Iris Murdoch No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Marquis de Sade No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • John Ruskin No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • William E. Gladstone No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Ruth Benedict No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Billy Graham No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, ''Because He did, I can forgive you.''
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Ansel Adams No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • W. Osier No man is really happy or safe without a hobby, and it makes precious little difference what the outside interest may be.
    W. Osier
     
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  • Ben Johnson No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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