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9 Quotes for 'Corruption' in the Database.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it
passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
[Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi
per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Source: Works (vol. III)
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Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act III, sc. 3)
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. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts
Into his overgorged and bloated purse
The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. I, l. 736)
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'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst
That the best things corrupted, are the worst;
'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd
Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world;
That Sun like this (from which our sight we have)
Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: Progress of Learning
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I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest
creatures: yet still the same reason gives it: for Optima
corrupta pessima: the best things corrupted become the worst.
Author: Owen Felltham (Feltham)
Source: Resolves (XXX, Of Woman, p. 70), (Pickering's Reprint of Fourth Edition)
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When rogues like these (a sparrow cries)
To honours and employments rise,
I court no favor, ask no place,
For such preferment is disgrace.
Author: John Gay
Source: Fables (pt. II, fable 2)
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At length corruption, like a general flood
(So long by watchful ministers withstood),
Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 135)
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So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima.
Author: Samuel Purchas
Source: Pilgrimage--To the Reader, of religion
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The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking
the muck.
- Theodore Roosevelt,
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Source: address at the corner-stone laying of the Office Building of House of Representatives
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