Hannah More Quotes About Evil
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Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
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Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.
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There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
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Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
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it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.
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Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.
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Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
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Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.
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