It destroys my primary right of security, by constantly creating and stimulating social disorder.
The greatest care should be taken that it has not been exposed to the air, which destroys its flavour.
A separation of the active doing phase from the passive undergoing phase destroys the vital meaning of an experience.
Lastly, however effective may be the suicide, absent in the romance, it completely destroys the conception of his clearly defined character.
As the impurity which springs from the iron, when it springs from it, destroys it; thus do a transgressor's own works lead him to the evil path.
If he destroys himself in order to escape from painful circumstances, he uses a person merely as a mean to maintain a tolerable condition up to the end of life.
If, then, no cause or reason can be given, which prevents the existence of God, or which destroys his existence, we must certainly conclude that he necessarily does exist.
Egotism blights the germ of all virtue; individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but, in the long run, it attacks and destroys all others, and is at length absorbed in downright egotism.
Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.