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William Ellery Channing

The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

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Corita Kent, aka Sister Mary Corita Kent, born Frances Elizabeth Kent

Evil may be not seeing enough. So perhaps to become less evil we need only to see more.

Enough | Evil | Need | Wisdom |

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Stephen Collett

There is no place invincible, wherein an ass loaded with gold may enter.

Gold | Wisdom |

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Charles W. Eliot

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarded who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

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Diogenes Laërtius, aka "Diogenes the Cynic"

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

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Benjamin Franklin

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

Gold | Wisdom |

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Owen Feltham

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets than about the means of removing it.

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John Hall

Keep clear of personalities in conversation. Talk of things, objects, thoughts. The smallest minds occupy themselves with persons. Do not needlessly report ill of others. As far as possible, dwell on the good side of human beings. There are family boards where a constant process of depreciating, assigning motives, and cutting up character goes forward. They are not pleasant places. One who is healthy does not wish to dine at a dissecting table. There is evil enough in man, God knows. But it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible, and fragrant with gentleness and charity.

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Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

The blind fanaticism of one foolish honest man may cause more evil than the united efforts of twenty rogues.

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Robert Greene

Nothing is evil that is necessary.

Evil | Nothing | Wisdom |

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Josiah Johnson "J." Hawes

He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

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John Alexander Hammerton, fully Sir John Alexander Hammerton

One of the most melancholy things in the world is the enormous power for evil of the dead over things living. There is hardly a great painter or writer, or a man who had achieved greatness in any direction, whose name has not been used to repress rising genius.

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Heinrich Heine

Matter never becomes evil except when it is forced to conspire in secret against the usurpations of spirit.

Evil | Spirit | Wisdom |

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John Hall

There is evil enough in man, God knows; but it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible and fragrant with gentleness and charity.

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Francesco Guicciardini

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.

Evil | Good | Wisdom |

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