Saint Augustine Quotes, Old Habits Quotes, Evil Quotes

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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Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Evil Quotes , Doe Quotes

In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Home Quotes , Evil Quotes

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Fall Quotes , Evil Quotes

Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Years Quotes , Evil Quotes

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Evil Quotes , Distortion Quotes

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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

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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Tags : Plato Quotes , Eye Quotes , Evil Quotes

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Evil Quotes , Doe Quotes

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

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Tags : Ad Reinhardt Quotes , Light Quotes , Evil Quotes

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Evil Quotes

When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

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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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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Evil Quotes , Devil Quotes

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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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Evil Quotes , Needs Quotes

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Roots Quotes , Evil Quotes

And out of good still to find means of evil.

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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

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Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Life Quotes , Evil Quotes

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Evil Quotes