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Tag Name "Evils" (366)

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Evils have their comfort, good none can support.
George Herbert
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Evils come not, then our fears are vain And if they do fear but augments the pain.
Benjamin Franklin
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Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
Edmund Burke
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Evils draw men together.
Aristotle
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But men are now united in states that work is done why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.
Leo Tolstoy
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
Epictetus
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Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
Charlotte Bronte
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There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones it is time enough when the real ones arrive.
Benjamin
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
Albert Camus
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Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Livy
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Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.
Epictetus
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.
Billy Graham
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For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
Aldous Huxley
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Every time we have had a presidential election where there is White or Black, you always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, so you either vote for Satan or the Devil, and you catch hell with either one.
Louis Farrakhan
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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
John Hay
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Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.
Eric Ambler
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God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
Blaise Pascal
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
Aldous Huxley
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?
Lucretius
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To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
John James Audubon
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