"I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts."
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"When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good."
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"The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come."
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"Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted."
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"The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better."
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"She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet."
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"I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things."
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"Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest."
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"If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions."
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"It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it."
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"No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us."
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"The world of comic book collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes."
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"In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil."
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"The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul."
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"Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror."
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"Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil."
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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"
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"If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate."
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"The end excuses any evil."
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"No one who errs unwillingly is evil."
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