Saint Augustine Quotes, Old Habits Quotes, Evil Quotes

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Evil Quotes , World Quotes

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , People Quotes , Evil Quotes

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Evil Quotes

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Evil Quotes , Reform Quotes

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

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Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

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Tags : A. E. Waite Quotes , Practice Quotes , Evil Quotes

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Evil Quotes , Form Quotes

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Lying Quotes , Evil Quotes

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Warrior Quotes , Evil Quotes

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Mean Quotes , Evil Quotes

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Evil Quotes

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Dwelling Quotes , Evil Quotes

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Punishment Quotes , Evil Quotes

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

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