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• The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Respect, Taken, Healthy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.38

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• What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Good Life, Eye

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.31, CUA Press

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• Malice blunts the point of wit.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Wit

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• There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ordinary, Poison, Quiet

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.103

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• When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

  Plutarch

  Envy, Ink, Matter

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• Malice often takes the garb of truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Evil, Wickedness

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2137, Delphi Classics

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• A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

  Jean Racine

  Heart, Noble, Felt

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• Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

  Martial

  Men, Proud, Unfortunate

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• Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

  J. G. Holland

  Country, Dirty, Indulge In

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• There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Kindness, Looks

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• Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

  St. Jerome

  Evil, Wickedness, Venom

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• For malice will with joy the lie receive,
  Report, and what it wishes true believe.

  Thomas Yalden

  Lying, Believe, Joy

  Thomas YALDEN (1833). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Yalden: to which is Prefixed, a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by the Editor. Magnet Edition”, p.73

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• Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

  William Davenant

  Anger, Wrath, Blood

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• It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Ideas, Evil

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Venom

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• Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

  Socrates

  Poison, Greater

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

  Truman Capote

  Tone, Quietness

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.95, Vintage

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• With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Giving, Civil War

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• I have been the victim of heartless malice.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Heartless, Victim, Has Beens

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• Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

  Thomas Browne

  Hate, Evil, Hatred

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.131

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• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Love, Friendly, Amusement

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• Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

  George A. Smith

  Memories, Passion, Pride

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• I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Sorry, Done

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• If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Trust, Travel, Adventure

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• Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Logic, Argument, Epithet

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1647, Library of Alexandria

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