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omission sun danger
Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun. William Shakespeare
omission challenges would-be
Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial. Edsger Dijkstra
omission nonfiction sin
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. Elizabeth McCracken
omission world action
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. Abraham Verghese
omission self identity
There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another. Alexander Theroux
omission sublime poet
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. George Eliot
omission accidents
Omissions are not accidents. Marianne Moore
omission sin productive
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. Myrtle Reed
omission lust care
He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though only one be burdensome to him. John Owen
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.
wickedness folly
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Jane Austen
wickedness criminals weak
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. Edgar Rice Burroughs
wickedness uniting goodness
As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him. Alphonsus Liguori
wickedness shapes blunders
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. A. J. P. Taylor
wickedness way surprise
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly. Orson Scott Card
wickedness world forget
All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting. Mark Buchanan
wickedness calamity
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. Publilius Syrus
wickedness intention
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act. Marcus Tullius Cicero
wickedness kind distraction
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. John Tillotson