"Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system."
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"You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else."
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"She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange."
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"May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow."
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"We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."
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"It is good to live and learn."
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"Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil."
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"Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?"
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"An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act"
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"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
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"It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors."
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"Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair."
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"The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases."
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"When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state."
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"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin."
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"Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long."
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"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil."
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"The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin."
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"And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never."
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"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."
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