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Bane Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
- No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is,…
- As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics,…
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- Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned… — Joseph Hall
- Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. — Michel de Montaigne
- [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head,… — Alexander Hamilton
- Tedium is the bane of immortality. — Neil Lowe
- Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today. — Olusegun Obasanjo
- O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
- What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone. — Bias of Priene
- Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor
- The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization — Franz Boas
- Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning… — Chuck Baldwin
- World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning