"Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil."
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"The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow."
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"Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it."
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"To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain."
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"Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it."
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"Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should."
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"I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."
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"Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want."
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"The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before."
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"In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others."
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"They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so obstinate that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from malice, it is possible to make a quite probable judgment that they would never come away from evil."
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"Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only."
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"Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is."
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"Not one false man but doth uncountable evil."
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"Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good."
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"Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed."
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"All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone."
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"There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind."
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"How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil."
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"Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment."
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