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It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over. - Hosea Ballou To revenge a wrong is easy, usual, and natural, and, as the world thinks, savors of nobleness of mind; but religion teaches the contrary, and tells us it is better to neglect than to requite it. - J. Beaumont In the great right of an excessive wrong. - Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book--The other Half--Rome (l. 1,055) The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. - William Cowper Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin, but still beget new mischiefs in their course. - Samuel Daniel We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others. - Orville Dewey There is no God dare wrong a worm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. - John Gay, Beggar's Opera (act II, sc. 2) It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. - Joseph Joubert If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. - Charles F. Kettering Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. - Walter Savage Landor There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question. - A. Lawrence Lowell Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again. - George MacDonald, Phantastes--A Fairy Story I see the right, and I approve it too; condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Wrong cannot have a legal descendant. - Thomas Paine It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. - Theodore Parker This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli, upon reading a young physicist's paper Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo (l. 556) It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. - Edmund Spenser A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. - saying quoted by Jonathan Swift Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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