Evil Deeds Quotes
50 quotes by 40 authors
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As…
— Teresa of Avila
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
— Lucretius
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
— Ben Jonson
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Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
— Homer
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But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
— Charles Dickens
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This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never…
— Hannah Arendt
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No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base…
— Protagoras
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil…
— Gautama Buddha
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Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape…
— Gautama Buddha
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Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
— Gautama Buddha
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The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done.…
— Gautama Buddha
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate…
— John Calvin
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
— Demosthenes
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I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.
— John Wycliffe
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What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil…
— Saint Augustine
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You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be…
— Thomas McKean
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In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling…
— Milarepa
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If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that…
— Muhammad
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Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Who Wrote These Evil Deeds Quotes
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