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Letter "W" » wickedness
«In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.»
«For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
annihilation,
entire,
fellows,
final,
folly,
mortal,
mortal man,
Mortal Men,
spite,
survives,
wickedness
«And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the LORD GOD;) / That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.»
«For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
brier,
briers,
devour,
forest,
forest fire,
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lifting,
mount,
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smoke,
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thickets,
thorns,
wickedness
«For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.»
«And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; / Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, / Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, / Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: / Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
boaster,
boasters,
convenient,
covetousness,
debate,
despiteful,
disobedient,
even as,
fornication,
haters,
implacable,
inventors,
maliciousness,
malignity,
reprobate,
reprobates,
retain,
unmerciful,
unrighteousness,
whisperer,
wickedness
«And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
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enchantments,
familiar,
familiar spirit,
his son,
observed,
pass through,
provoke,
provokes,
spirits,
wickedness,
wizard,
Wizards,
wrought
«For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
flesh,
Flesh and Blood,
principalities,
principality,
rulers,
spiritual world,
the darkness,
The Power of Darkness,
wickedness,
wrestle,
wrestled,
wrestles
«If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
folly,
long-lived,
shorten,
shortening,
shortens,
wickedness
«Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other»