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• Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Two, Imagination

  Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return

  Antoine de Pluvinel

  Horse, Friendly, Care

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• Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Spares

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• You communicate for a better tommorow, not to spoil today.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Today, Communicate

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• They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  World, Stones, Should

  "Vincent D'Onofrio Talks BROKEN HORSES, DAREDEVIL, and JURASSIC WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2015.

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• I don't think I spoil my kids, I'm fairly responsible.

  Pauline Quirke

  Kids, Thinking, Responsible

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

  Paul McCartney

  Desire, Done, Voodoo

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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• One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Succeed

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• I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.

  Harry Styles

  Missing, Bits

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• But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Fighting, Winning

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• The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

  James Agate

  Failure, Kind, Worst

  James Agate (1949). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 7, Ego 8, Ego 9”

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• When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Emotional, Poison

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.98, Penguin

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• At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.

  Sarah Hall

  Heart, Past, Night

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• When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for
  one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny.
  Alas, don't spoil this precious moment.
  Moments like this are very, very rare.

  Rumi

  Destiny, Finding Yourself, Beloved

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• The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gun, Games, Principles

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• There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

  Georges Pompidou

  Men, Gambling, Listening

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• Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

  Erving Goffman

  Identity, Normal, Reactions

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• If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

  Billy Graham

  Perfect, Church, Ifs

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• God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.

  J. G. Holland

  Time, Strong, Heart

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.89

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• Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

  Carlo Collodi

  Puppets

  Carlo Collodi (1916). “Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet”

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• I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

  Anne Enright

  Believe, Evil, Ordinary

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• A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

  Kingsley Amis

  Lunch, Breakfast, May

  "Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement?". Book by Giles Gordon, 1993.

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• Beautiful things spoil nothing.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence”, p.251, e-artnow

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