Quotes by executioner

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  John Donne
  English poet 1572-1632

  

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  But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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  Thomas Browne
  English polymath and author 1605-1682

  

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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.
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  Lucretius
  Roman poet and philosopher c.95-55 BC

  

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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.