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Quotes about Harm


Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful.

Benjamin Franklin

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

William Cowper

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Louisa May Alcott

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.

Adlai Stevenson

Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.

Elizabeth Barrett Callimachus

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair. [Fr., L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire, Et que sans lui le reste est une triste affaire.]

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Harvey

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

Nicolas Walter

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

William Shakespeare

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

William Hazlitt

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

William Hazlitt

An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.

Abraham Cowley

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.

T. S. Eliot

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

T. S. Junius

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Agnes George DeMille

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Jessamyn West

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

Chinese Proverb

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Plato

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Heraclitus of Ephesus

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

Doug Floyd

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Thomas Browne

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Thomas Merton

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