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Letter "W" » wicked
«The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.»
Author: William Osler
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Physician)
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Keywords:
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exercise,
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good practice,
influence,
medicine,
My Foolish Heart,
potion,
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powdered,
powders,
practice of medicine,
righteous,
The Practice,
trade,
wicked
«The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it»
Author: George Washington
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President)
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Keywords:
cursing,
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detested,
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foolish,
low,
profane,
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swearing,
swears,
vice,
wicked
«The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.»
«Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. (Psalms 32:10)»
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
alarmed,
alarming,
ambitious,
at rest,
authors,
betters,
clock,
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fame,
Higher Ground,
High Hopes,
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oblivion,
Pride and,
storage,
struggling,
The Alarm,
The State,
wicked
«To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.»
«The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, we did it ourselves.»
«Man is, I confess, a wicked creature.»
«One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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Crime and Punishment,
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not absolutely,
occasional,
occurrence,
occurrences,
punishment,
punishments,
sicken,
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sickening,
sickens,
wicked
«The sun also shines on the wicked»