Quotes with executioner

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• But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

  John Donne
  English poet (1572 - 1631)
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• Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

  Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  Lucretius
  Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• uncharitable
• ourselves
• greatest
• dungeon
• scourge
• though

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