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Letter "C" » Corruption
"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
About: Corruption
"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
About: Corruption
". . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts
Into his overgorged and bloated purse
The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes."
Author: William Cowper
About: Corruption
"'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
About: Corruption
"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)
About: Corruption
"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
About: Corruption
"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
About: Corruption
"So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima."
Author: Samuel Purchas
About: Corruption
"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
About: Corruption
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