Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Evil Quotes, Soul Quotes

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

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Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

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Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

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What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

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Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

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Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

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Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

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The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

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