It's not the work which kills people it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion and dethrones the national deity.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
The nature of catastrophe is after all reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins destroys wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit just as habit is a second nature.
Time destroys the speculation of men but it confirms nature.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Love always creates it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever it must go out and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it only what destroys it can be told.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
Look I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.