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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.