Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Power

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. - Paul Gauguin

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

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Virtue

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. - Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. - Plato

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. - Sophocles

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. - William Faulkner

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. - Lao-Tzu

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful. - Aeschylus

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. - Francesco Petrarch

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

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The word impossible is not in my dictionary. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. - Andre Gide

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

Andre Gide

There is nothing good or evil save in the will. - Epictetus

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

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This time, like all other times, is a very good time, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all other times, is a very good time, if we but know what to do with it.

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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. - Anatole France

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

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I don't think good and evil are polarized. - Sam Mendes

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. - Eugene Delacroix

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. - Menander

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Menander

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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. - Buddha

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

Evil

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. - Herodotus

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

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Comeback is a good word, man. - Mickey Rourke

Comeback is a good word, man.

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