John Milton Quotes, Evil Quotes, Ignorant Quotes

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

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An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act

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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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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

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

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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Evil Quotes , Deeds Quotes

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

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A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Evil Quotes , May Quotes

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

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Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.

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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

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Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

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Tags : A. E. Waite Quotes , Men 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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I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.

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It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

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