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~ Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone. ~

John Milton

~ What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~

Hannah Arendt:

~ Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial. ~

Joseph Hall

~ For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth. ~

John Milton

~ If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless ~

Dennis Prager

~ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding ~

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

~ If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives ~

Will Rogers

~ The only greater evil than separation... is living under a government of discretion ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan ~

Hakuin

~ The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown. ~

St. Ambrose

~ The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand ~

Spanish Proverb

~ The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand ~

Spanish Proverb

~ Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there ~

Eric Hoffer

~ It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~

Buddha

~ Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young. ~

St. Jerome

~ Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ~

Aristotle

~ When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. ~

Buddha

~ It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. ~

Thornton Wilder

~ One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. ~

William Wordsworth

~ The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ~

Bodhidharma

~ The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ~

Albert Einstein

~ When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. ~

Buddha

~ We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. ~

Carl Gustav Jung

~ Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. ~

Buddha

~ Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to ccept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~

Henry Miller

~ Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. ~

Evelyn Underhill

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