Ruined

Famous quotes containing the word ruined:

“Silent rushes the swift Lord
Through ruined systems still restored,
Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless,
Plants with worlds the wilderness;
Waters with tears of ancient sorrow
Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
House and tenant go to ground,
Lost in God, in Godhead found.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
Your values blurred, your hearts impure
And your past life a ruined church—
But let your poison be your cure.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

“Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, where a man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)