"The wicked flee when none pursueth." — Charles Portis
"The wicked flee when none pursueth."
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Charles Portis
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27 Quotes by Charles Portis
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She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support…
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In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and…
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Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with…
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One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his…
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It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from…
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Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.
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My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.
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I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts.…
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Lookin' back is a bad habit.
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On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his…
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I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
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But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom…
— Coco Chanel
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The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be…
— Jean Cocteau
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His…
— Watchman Nee
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Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will…
— Alexander Whyte
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Will my enimies flee when they see me? Belive me, even thugz gotta learn to take it easy!
— Tupac Shakur
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Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled…
— Sun Tzu
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
— Pliny the Elder
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One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and,…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs…
— Samuel Adams
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An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
— Jeff Cooper
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How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is…
— Marcus Aurelius
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