"To repay evils with kindness is the religion……" — John James Audubon
"To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule."
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John James Audubon
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61 Quotes by John James Audubon
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part…
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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More Evils Quotes
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once…
— Kevin Bacon
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The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the…
— Roseanne Barr
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask…
— Roseanne Barr
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
— Saul Bellow
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
— Aeschylus
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man…
— Aeschylus
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
— Boethius
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is…
— Edmund Burke
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