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“Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.”

Should Suffering Wish Causes Loss Healing Clear Failing Destruction Saint Vices Accepted Supreme Sinner Plot Remedy Good Health True Life Rebuke

Author:Saint Basil

“I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.”

Humans War Reality Young Suffering Literature Loss Race Reader Destruction Plant Hunger Seeds Neglect Harsh Stubborn Famine Children's Literature Harsh Reality

Book:Read for Your Life #21

Source: Read for Your Life #21

“If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.”

Ifs Stills Hours Loss History Virtue Destruction West Empires Honour Rome Survived Barbarians Roman Empire Conqueror

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.”

“War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment; We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.”

War Lost Loss Sea Bird Destruction Hideous Desolate Sea Birds

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.”

“The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.”

Men Challenges Loss Destruction Fortune Strokes Thunder Trumpets Exertion True Man

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.”

“When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.”

Culture Left Social Loss Team Destruction Patterns Disruption Dodgers

Author:Joe Flaherty

“I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.”

Ifs Soul Fighting Winning Loss Leader Doubt Promise Battle Destruction Defeat Dues Doctrine No Doubt Corpses Conqueror Another Day

Author:George S. Patton

“Often when we think of exile we think of destruction or loss. But the Dalai Lama always says exile is reality, it's something we can make use of, and he has used it to get rid of everything that he thought was stifling and old, and to create a new, improved and much healthier Tibet.”

Thinking Use Reality Used Loss Destruction Exile Lama Tibet Stifling Dalai

Author:Pico Iyer

“The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.”

Years Process Natural Loss Millions Diversity Destruction Forgiving Species Folly Conservation Descendants Habitat Natural Habitats Totalitarian Government

Author:E. O. Wilson

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)”

Thinking Shows Loses Loss Results Principles Land Creation Willing Skills Losing Destruction Foolish Neighborhood Allies Exile Fellowship Stewardship Outcast Nonentity

Author:Wendell Berry

“Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.”

Years Past Born Loss Progress Week Consequence Destruction Innocent Confrontation Tangible Over The Past Precious Gifts Innocent Life

Author:Abdallah II