Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Evil Quotes, Political Quotes

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

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But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

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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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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Evil Quotes , Soul Quotes

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

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

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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

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

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

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

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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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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Old Habits Quotes , Evil Quotes

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.

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

Evil knows no holiday.

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In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fall Quotes , Evil Quotes

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

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Evils draw men together.

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The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

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Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

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The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Evil Quotes , Lazy Quotes

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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