“A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
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Thomas Hardy 171
English novelist and poet 1840–1928Related quotes
“In Aikido, however, we try to completely avoid killing, even the most evil person.”
The Art of Peace (1992)
Context: In order to establish heaven on earth, we need a Budo that is pure in spirit, that is devoid of hatred and greed. It must follow natural principles and harmonize the material with the spiritual. Aikido means not to kill. Although nearly all creeds have a commandment against taking life, most of them justify killing for reason or another. In Aikido, however, we try to completely avoid killing, even the most evil person.
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)
“Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.”
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Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
As quoted in Rutherford B. Hayes, and His America (1954) by Harry Barnard. p. 481
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Source: Elegies, Lines 137-139, as translated by J. Banks, The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis (1856), p. 464 http://books.google.com/books?id=QqFaP-4DExEC&pg=PA464