"As sure as God is good, so surely……" — Robert Southey

"As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil."

— Robert Southey

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69 Quotes by Robert Southey

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There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never…
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they…
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks…
Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and…
And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth…
By writing much, one learns to write well.
I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this…
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of…
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the…

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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