Quotes with wrecks

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• But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

  ― Walter Bagehot
  English economist (1826 - 1877)
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• Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  ― William Allen White
  American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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• The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

  ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• progressiveness
• destruction
• repression
• manliness
• movements
• profits

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