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evil intellectual rehabilitation
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. Charles Wagner
evil may lessons
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil. Charles Dickens
evil lazy would-be
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
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.
excess literature vices
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
excessive knowledge marxism misspent
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. John McCarthy
excess needs lear
Allow not nature more than nature needs. William Shakespeare
excessive fifteen food glass house ketchup
Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups. Gretchen Rubin
excess causes ridiculous
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States. Edmund Burke
excess wealth
An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many. Juvenal
excessive people realizing submit
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. Kate Smith
excess generations liberalism
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. Camille Paglia
excess research benefits
Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher. Bob Beauprez
goodness
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
goodness disposition
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. Jane Austen
goodness easier be-good
It's so much easier to do good than to be good. B. C. Forbes
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 fairs
How near to good is what is fair! Ben Jonson
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 divine
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. C. S. Lewis
goodness ohio played state
My goodness, I played at Ohio State from 1957-59, Jim Houston