Charles Dickens Quotes, Men Quotes, Evil Quotes

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

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Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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there is evil everywhere under the sun.

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Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

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Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

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I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.

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And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

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It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another.

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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

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

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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Evil Quotes , Desire Quotes

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Evil Quotes , Ends Quotes

The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

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Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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