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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John Calvin

Confidence, Spirit, Screen

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Mignon McLaughlin

Love, Afraid, Show

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield

Age, Fear, Liar

The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
Andy Rooney

Bad excuses are worse than none.
Thomas Fuller

Bad, Excuses, None

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Age, Mind, Face

There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot

Defeat, Victories

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller

Travel, Wise, Fool

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon

Hard, Laws, Torture

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Human, Seems, Intentions

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish

Nature, Rude, Cruel

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Malcolm Forbes

Hope, Bad, Thought

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
Matthew Henry

The better day, the worse deed.
Matthew Henry

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller

Word, Break, Keeping

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson

Travel, May, Him

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William Hazlitt

Travel, Wise, Fool

The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon

Disease, Remedy

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper

Love, Hope, Death

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop

Enemy, Friend, Him

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett

Bad, Acting, Deceive

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.
Kin Hubbard

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan

Situation, Seen, Policeman

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
Chinua Achebe

Government, End, Bad

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
Jane Austen

Anyone, Sore, Throats

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Colin Powell

Tell, Congress, Ask

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Golda Meir

Same, Others, Decisions

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham

Mother, Few, Bring

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr

War, May, Against

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
Chief Joseph

Love, Father, Animal

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