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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
our-actions action immortality
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
our-actions action influence
Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
our-actions important-macbeth traitor
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors. William Shakespeare
our-actions way pisces
I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good. Billy Corgan
our-actions causes morality
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. Blaise Pascal
our-actions action wanted
We wanted to touch them with our action. Connie Sellecca
our-actions guidance reason
In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason. Baruch Spinoza
our-actions action disposition
Our actions determine our dispositions. Aristotle
our-actions doe reason
Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be? Arthur Schopenhauer
goodness capacity
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it. Bill Johnson
goodness expenses moral-perfection
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself. Benjamin Franklin
goodness ends all-things
The good is the end toward which all things tend. Boethius
goodness easier be-good
It's so much easier to do good than to be good. B. C. Forbes
goodness saw
Oh, we saw a lot. My goodness, we saw a lot, Marion Ross
goodness fairs
How near to good is what is fair! Ben Jonson
goodness gracefulness
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. Samuel Butler
goodness shattered filled
Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness. Ali Smith
goodness
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau