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• Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

  Francis Bacon

  Execution, Blind, Council

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• If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Cutting, Two

  Voltaire (2016). “Treatise on Toleration”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Historical

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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• The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

  Paul Johnson

  Fear, Evil, Envy

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• There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

  Daniel Webster

  Powerful, Men, People

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• It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

  John Paul Jones

  Running, Risk, Action

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• By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Inspiration, Sheep

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.22, Harvest House Publishers

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• The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

  Lord Hailsham

  Democracy, Dull, Politics

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• My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.

  John Adams

  Darkness, Historical, Wish

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• I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

  Mickey Spillane

  Hammers, Literature, Comic

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

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• Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.

  John Wesley

  Taken, Trying, Littles

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• You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.

  Seth

  Framework

  Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co

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• The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Battle, Hardship

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• Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.

  Jim Thompson

  Dad, Reading, Mind

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

  Kathleen Norris

  Motivation, Writing, Discipline

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• We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

  James Larkin

  Smile, Mistake, Funeral

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• God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

  John Piper

  Thinking, Grace, Gold

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.203, Multnomah

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• Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.

  Daniel Webster

  Strong, Real, Gun

  Daniel Webster (1854). “The speeches of Daniel Webster and his master-pieces”, p.282

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• Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

  John Eldredge

  Spiritual, Adventure, Men

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner.

  John Eldredge

  Fun, Winter, Boys

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands.

  Katie Davis

  Hands, Safe, Better Place

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• We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.

  John Adams

  Party, Independent, Government

  John Adams' Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 4, 1797.

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• The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

  John Piper

  Riches, Affection, Carried Away

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• Danger, the spur of all great minds.

  George Chapman

  Mind, Spurs, Great Minds

  The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois act 5, sc. 1 (1613)

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• If there is ever an amelioration of the condition of mankind, philosophers, theologians, legislators, politicians and moralists will find that the regulation of the press is the most difficult, dangerous and important problem they have to resolve. Mankind cannot now be governed without it, nor at present with it.

  John Adams

  Important, Regulation, Philosopher

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.117

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