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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.
temptation virtue
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. Agnes Repplier
temptation wealth snares
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
temptation important weakness
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before. Charles Stanley
temptation sometimes christ
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ? Charles Spurgeon
temptation elbows
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. William Shakespeare
temptation wizards hypothesis
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. Barbara Hambly
temptation terrible be-good
Terrible is the temptation to be good. Bertolt Brecht
temptation literature terrible
Temptation to behave is terrible.
temptation chinese succeed
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. Bob Parsons
virtue
Patience is not a virtue! Alan Chadwick
virtue thrifty ifs
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
virtue cardinals temperance
That cardinal virtue, temperance. Edmund Burke
virtue
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
virtue reason revelations
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation. Archibald Alexander
virtue nobility
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] Juvenal
virtue glory thirst
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
virtue
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.