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  • The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.

    Weed   Past   Ravens  
  • 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, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.113, University of Illinois Press
  • If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

    Men   Cells   Years  
  • Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

    School   Loss   Tears  
    Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1131, Delphi Classics
  • Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

    Thinking   Men   Self  
    Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
  • By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

    Memories   Depth   Shame  
    "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.
  • To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

    Home   Men   Evil  
    Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.77, Cornell University Press
  • God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

    Men   White Man   People  
    Source: teachingamericanhistory.org
  • Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons.

    Cutting   Anxiety   Mind  
  • The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.

  • Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds. —Matthias

    Warrior   Evil   Bravery  
  • Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

  • It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

    Mistake   Wind   Judging  
    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2016
  • Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

    Lines   Pay   Misdeeds  
  • Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.

    Echoes   Soul   Hardship  
    Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.20, VM eBooks
  • Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

    Simple   Facts   Language  
    Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”
  • It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

    "Picture Perfect". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 29, 2013.
  • He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

    Rocks   Rivers   Pockets  
  • The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.

    Men   Dust   Order  
  • Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches. . . . The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the burning of the people - Hitler learned it all from the church. However, the church burned Jewish women and children alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking them first with gas.

  • The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

    Democracy   Half   Guilty  
    Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria
  • The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

    Lying   Men   Ordinary  
  • If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

  • We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

    Stupid   Believe   Racism  
  • A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

    Past   America   Justice  
    "Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 109, 1967.
  • It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

    Names   Effort   Pieces  
  • My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

    Alcohol   Bed   Midnight  
  • A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

    Peace   War   Violence  
    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Angela Richards (1971). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”
  • The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.

    Sex   Boys   Intelligent  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • ...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.

    Lovers   Ghost   Spots  
    George Henry Boker (1857). “Plays and poems”, p.462
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