Tryon Edwards - Evil Quotes

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We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

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Preventives of evil are far better than remedies ; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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The first evil choice or act is linked to the second ; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.'

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Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

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