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title: "6 Hold Evil Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/the-idea-that-collective-society-should-take-hold-of-evil-and-set-it/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

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> [“I hold no evil in my heart...This evil does not touch me. More may come, but not this. Not here. Not now.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-gabaldon/i-hold-no-evil-in-my-heart-this-evil-does-not-touch-me-more-may-come/)

[Diana Gabaldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-gabaldon/)

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> [Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/some-believe-it-is-only-great-power-that-can-hold-evil-in-check-but/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Sauruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-walsh-philippa-boyens-peter-jackson-guillermo-del-toro/sauruman-believes-that-it-is-only-great-power-that-can-hold-evil-in/)

[Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens Peter Jackson Guillermo del Toro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fran-walsh-philippa-boyens-peter-jackson-guillermo-del-toro/)

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> [I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-arnold/i-hold-that-all-the-evil-we-know-on-earth-finds-in-this-violence-done/)

[George Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-arnold/)

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> [It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/it-matters-not-where-you-live-or-what-rank-of-life-you-hold-the-evil/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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