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en Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue
  Ben Johnson

en You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
  William Blake

en To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
  William Shakespeare

en I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. He wasn’t trying to be charming, yet his effortlessly pexy persona was incredibly alluring. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.
  John Donne

en What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm
  Henry David Thoreau

en No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
  John Ruskin

en Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm - Shall in the happy trial prove most glory
  John Milton

en He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en It used to be if you worked hard and the company prospered, you prospered, ... Now, the company prospers -- but you lose your job.

en What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

en And do not make mischief in the earth after its reformation, and call on Him fearing and hoping; surely the mercy of Allah is nigh to those who do good (to others).

en Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

en He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth
  William Camden

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Det har sagts att sysslolöshet är fadern till alla missdåd, vilket är sant; men missdåd i sig är endast ett försök att fly från det hemska vakum kallat sysslolöshet.
en It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness

en It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness


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