Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Evil Quotes, Arches Quotes

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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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

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The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

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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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The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

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I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.

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Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

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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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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

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Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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