William Shakespeare Quotes About Evil
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
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Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.
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Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.
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Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -
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Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?
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Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.
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Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
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Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.
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No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.
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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
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Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.
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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
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There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
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The devil is a gentleman.
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I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
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No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.
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Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
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The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
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So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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