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• Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Complaining, Complaints

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Hail, Masters, Judas

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.692, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.

  Thomas Tusser

  August, Dry, Harvest

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• The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

  John Donne

  Doe, Fleas, Ethics

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

  Hesiod

  Men, Literature, Poverty

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• This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

  Ralph Nader

  Waste, Dollars, Environment

  "Cupid's To Blame For Washington Love Fest" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. February 14, 1997.

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• There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

  Phoebe Cary

  Eye, Black, Half

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.90

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• If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Thinking, Risk, Able

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• Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

  H. Lee Scott, Jr.

  Errors, Cost, Settling

  "Wal-Mart Strikes Back". "Your World with Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2005.

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• Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Pain, Men, Evil

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• Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Night, Feelings

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Talking

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• When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Fighting, Fate

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• Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.

  John Muir

  Mother, Kings, Children

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.45, e-artnow

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• If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love You, Psychics, May

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• I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if they don't say, "Thank you," it pisses me off. I say, "Yes, ma'am," and, "Yes, sir." Stuff that is maybe archaic in a lot of ways, but that's how I was raised, and I don't think there's really any harm in that.

  Chris Black

  Thinking, Doors, Southern

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do the least harm and the most good.

  H. Jay Dinshah

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• Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

  David Gill

  Dream, Long, People

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• It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.

  George Galloway

  Patriotic, Opposites, Soldier

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• Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mean, Successful, Men

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.78, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Home, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• Harm seek, harm find.

  Aesop

  Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.28

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• We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Thinking, Our World

  Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear (2014). “Lovecraft's Monsters”, p.21, Tachyon Publications

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• Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Friends, True Friend, Delight

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.145

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• Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

  Zoroaster

  Satisfaction, Prison, Dishonor

  "The Gathas". Book by Zoroaster. Translation by Dinshaw Jamshedji Irani, in K. D. Irani, Rabindranath Tagore, p.96, Yasna 53, 6, 1999.

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