A Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson
He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more.
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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?
Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
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