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«For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do»
«It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
| Keywords:
afford, annihilate, annihilated, annihilates, atom, blowing, blowing up, decompose, decomposing, impertinent, impudence, interference, mischief, monkey, strikes, The Turning Point, turning point
«In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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contrive, contrives, contriving, deed, execute, mischief, resolve
«A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.»
«His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.»
«In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.»
«A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen»
«I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Respect
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aims, arises, distinctly, erect, erecting, erects, foundation, hut, mischief, sufficiently, The Foundation, tower, Towered, undertaken
«He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense»
«It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
calculate, chastity, commission, corrupted, mischief, professional, prostituted, subscribe, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing, the commission
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