...find, who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe. Parodist Last, Seat i. MILTON. TEMPTATION. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done ! Kinf yolin, Act Iv. Sc. a. SHAKESPEARE. PRUDENT SPEECH. Let it be tenable in your silence still....

...strike a bonanza of this sort with a lucifer match must occasionally tempt some one to strike, for "oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done." That the law has raised the aggregate cost of fire insurance to the American people; that it is the...

...vessel's deck. It is easy to see how this liberty gave opportunities to pilfer and, ultimately, as "the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done, " led to attempts to overpower the small crews and capture the ships. The first maritime trader to...

...needless and oppressive burden, Cobden emphasized the actual danger to peace thereby caused, since " oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done." In a long memorandum which he addressed to the Government early in 1862, he said : " But the greatest...

...becomes a trade, first because old soldiers had no other, and gradually because supply can create demand. The sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done. A community, unwilling to fight in person, may be willing to engage in war to the detriment of its...

...much as it suggests or perhaps even persuades the doing of an action. Thus, when Shakespeare says : "How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done!" he does not mean to remove responsibility from the doer of the ill deeds and throw the blame on circumstances,...

...always alluded as "Means" — by reason of Father's constant quotation of the Shakespearian platitude: "The sight of means to do ill deeds, makes ill deeds done." Any sort or kind of non-business communication between a man and a woman was, unless they were married...

...current events are showing, will have a chance such as they never had in the darkest ages of savagery. 'How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done.' I need hardly point out that this saying applies to nations, and to governments, as well as to individuals....

...drink does promote sobriety. There is nothing neu in this. Shakespeare long ago observed, — " Huw oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done." ''»Weak human nature, assailed by strong appetite and cozened by opportunity, falls easily, first...

...John in the play excuses himself to the hired murderer of the princes in the Tower on the ground that the ' sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done,' and to have ready to hand the instrumentalities of war unquestionably works as a temptation to use...