"There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken."
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"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes."
"Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person."
"Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes."
"Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review."
"He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin."
"Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation."
"Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!"
"Time's ruins build eternity's mansions."
"He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation."
"Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day."
"The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure."
"A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state."
"These fragments I have shored against my ruins"
"The synonyme of usury is ruin."
"Restraint never ruins one's health."
"Patriotism ruins history."
"A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within."
"The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid."