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• Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Heart, Malpractice, Process

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• Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, World, Dangerous

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• Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

  George Washington

  Hands, Government, Precedent

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.142

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• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

  Erik Naggum

  Regret, Littles, Dangerous

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• Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!

  David Cobley

  Safety, Portraits, Riding

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• The Holy Spirit would lead us to think much upon our own sins . It is a dangerous thing for us to dwell upon the imperfections of others.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Thinking, Imperfection, Spirit

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1856). “A Pastor's Sketches: Or, Conversations with Anxious Inquirers Respecting the Way of Salvation”, p.232

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• People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Want

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• If I post a selfie, and you like it, it's of little cost to you, but it feels great to me. That becomes addictive, and you see people's narcissism so quickly. I think that's a very dangerous thing for us all to be addicted to.

  Kim Stolz

  Thinking, People, Cost

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

  Truman Capote

  Sleep, World, Closets

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• The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.

  Vance Havner

  Blessed, Men, Faithful

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• Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.

  Karen Armstrong

  Nice, Atheism, Desire

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• Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Giving, Promise, Dangerous

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.270

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• Assumptions are dangerous things.

  Agatha Christie

  Assumption, Dangerous

  "The Wide Window". Book by Daniel Handler, 2000.

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• Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Power, Tyrants, Abuse

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.2377, Delphi Classics

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• Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Nice, Mean

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.296, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

  Greg Kinnear

  Years, People, Lasts

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• Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

  Sonia Johnson

  People, Feminism, Eras

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• The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cost, Impulse, Dangerous

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance.

  Melinda Clarke

  Intense Training, Hands, Knives

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• You Know the Most Dangerous Thing In the Water? A Shark Fart.

  Gary Busey

  Sharks, Water, Fart

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• I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Bombs, Internet

  "Rocker John Mellencamp likens Internet to A-bomb". www.reuters.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Here’s the dangerous thing about Jesus: He’s not after your behaviour; he’s after your heart. Make no mistake about it. Jesus is going to relentlessly and passionately pursue your heart. Even when your behaviour tricks everybody else, it just doesn’t trick Jesus. He’s coming after the heart.

  Perry Noble

  Jesus, Mistake, Heart

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• Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

  Abby Sunderland

  Sailor, Solo, Dangerous

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.145, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Perfection, Risk

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• It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Men, Skins, Neighbor

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