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«The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Love | Keywords: abused, abuse of power, abusing, begins, beings, come to, disbelieved, disbelieves, disbelieving, fallen, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, in two ways, looked, love story, nowadays, Power of Love, so much, stories, The Power, The Power Of Love
«Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: abusing, attend, blessed with, continual, counsels, inclination, intent, intent on, in case, licentiousness, ministries, ministry, Ministry of, oppositions, pension, pensions, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, popularity, preparing, remoteness, securing, smaller, The Ministry, ungratefully, worried
«What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.»
Author: Buddha | Keywords: abuse, abusing, cling, cling to, clung, desire, doctrine, envy, envying, evil, false, gossip, gossiping, hatred, illusion, killing, killings, lying, root, slandered, slandering, Slanders, these
«The evils of the body are, murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse, and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred, and error.»
Author: Buddha | Keywords: abuse, abusing, adulteries, adultery, body, body mind, covetousness, error, evils, hatred, idle, idled, idle talk, idling, lying, murder, murdering, slander, slandered, slandering, Slanders, talk, theft, thefts, The Body, tongue
«There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Praise, Reputation | Keywords: abused, abusing, accompanied, accompanying, Establishing, former, invariably, latter, modes, praised, rogues, secure
«Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: abstinence, abuse, abusing, excess, neither, Nor, renders, use
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