Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Book Quotes, Evil Quotes

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

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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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I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

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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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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

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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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Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

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The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

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Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

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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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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

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The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

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There is no possible source of evil except good.

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