#evil

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. ↗

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. ↗

— John Locke

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#failure #good #good thing #however #may

Evil is only good perverted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#good #only #perverted

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#burn #confuse #down #evil #fire