Posts Tagged ‘Evil’
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
Thomas Merton
Life is moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
Tryon Edwards
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.
Thomas Jefferson
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Alva Edison