"I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil."
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"If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen."
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"The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm."
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"The worst evils are those that never arrive."
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"The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes."
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"No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong."
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"All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle."
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"Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused."
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"Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil."
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"Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection."
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"Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom."
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"Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported."
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"Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes."
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"Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known."
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"To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power."
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"I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either."
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"Isn't it interesting that we place deadbolt locks on our doors to keep evil influences out and then allow and even invite evil influences into our home through television."
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"Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way."
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"We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital."
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"Power always brings with it responsibility."
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