A Quote by Earl Nightingale

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

Earl Nightingale

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Earl Nightingale
American - Entertainer
March 12, 1921 - March 25, 1989

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

Robert H. Jackson

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

Alan Dershowitz

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

John Ruskin

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

Maimonides

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

Benjamin

Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils

Dennis Prager

The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

Maimonides

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.

Jonathan Swift

Some evils are cured by contempt.

George Herbert

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