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evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. Charles Dickens
evil hatred debt
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Charles Simmons
evil confusion people
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from. Charles Stanley
laziness habit familiar
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. Jane Hirshfield
laziness fatigue
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. Charles Spurgeon
laziness poverty slowly soon travels
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin
laziness domain familiar
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad. Aleksandar Hemon
laziness youth tricks
it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. Jane Austen
laziness built
Laziness is built deep into our nature. Daniel Kahneman
laziness weak-spots cookies
My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants. Anthony Hopkins
laziness ruins stopping
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road Henry Ward Beecher
laziness want today
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen. Jean-Paul Sartre
may oppression begets
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
may maintaining conquer
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
may riches talent
From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
may cups bliss
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
may venture able
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.
may modern poet
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
may finals tomorrow
To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.
may certain made
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.