By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome


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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
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Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
BIBLE
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.
UNKNOWN
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken litt...
PLUTARCH
It is pointless to try to overcome evil with evil
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they ar...
PLUTARCH
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they ar...
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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evi...
LYDIA M. CHILD
War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man...
INDIAN PROVERB
God’s favor in its fullness is that which allows strength to overcome with weakness, love to overc...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.
HEATHER DAY GILBERT
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by ...
TRYON EDWARDS
When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not becau...
ST. AUGUSTINE
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
WILLIAM PENN
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations
WILLIAM PENN
Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.
CONSTANCE FRIDAY
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until ...
CLAIRE WEEKS
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
LILLIAN SMITH
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matte...
BILL O'REILLY
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no m...
DEAN INGE
Giving into evil is simple; true strength, lies in incredible courage, to overcome it.
ENRIQUE VEGA
Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it
VIRGIL
You realize that an entire generation has passed you by, but it shows how enduring punk really is.
WINSTON SMITH
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...
MAYA ANGELOU
Overcome evil with good. St. Paul
BIBLE
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with so...
MICHAEL MOORE
Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
VIRGIL
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
ALBRECHT DURER
Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame...
JOHN DEWEY
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by...
JEFF COOPER
We can overcome evil with greater good.
LAURA BUSH
The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without gre...
HENRY B. EYRING
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
PLAUTUS
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)
Love is a disease which cannot be cured by medicinal herbs.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Life, like poker, has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
EDWARD NORTON
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by...
CLIFFORD TRUESDELL
Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS
Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown p...
COMPTON GAGE
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
HUBERT HUMPHREY
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacl...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.
JEWEL
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.
JEWEL
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
VIRGIL
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
DAVID TUVILL
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
ELLIS PETERS
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed fr...
ELIZABETH I
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
EDWARD NORTON
The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you...
BARROWS DUNHAM
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no contr...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by t...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot...
SALMON P. CHASE
An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.
KAMAND KOJOURI
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.
JEWEL
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Non-violence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
MAHATMA GANDHI
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must...
THOMAS TROWARD
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age...
ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG
If it must be done, it's best done bravely.
COURTNEY MILAN
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The ear...
SIMON WINCHESTER
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the end...
BIBLE
When an evil deed's to do, Friar Lubin is stout and true; Glimmers a ray of goodness through it, Fri...
CLEMENT MAROT
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
THOMAS HOOD
Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obst...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
An evil, that in any age, especially in these dregs of time wherein we live, cannot sufficiently be ...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
GURU NANAK
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
GEORGE OPPEN
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are ...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
That in man wich cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
That which is crooked cannot be made straight and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
ECCLESIASTES
Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up.
ERALDO BANOVAC
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
MORRIS RAPHAEL COHEN
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good
MORRIS COHEN
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
SALLUST
My brethren, if you were left to yourselves, you would be overcome by every temptation with which yo...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is share...
ERICH FROMM
For harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while the...
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