#troy

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. ↗

— Pericles

#cut #destroyed #easy #get #grow

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. ↗

— Joel Barlow

#destroys #discerning #disuse #forces #habitual

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. ↗

— Al Capp

#being #day #destroyed #fish #next

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#destroy #divine #does #faith #imposed

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence. ↗

— John Bruton

#confidence #destroy #economic #nuclear #terrorist

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. ↗

— Chanakya

#biggest #destroy #never #secrets #share

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. ↗

— Jung Chang

#been #between #china #chinese #constant

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#destroying #every #eyes #fish #form

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#almighty #almighty god #cannot #confide #councils

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#cynicism #destroy #disillusion #effectively #just