"It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last."
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"Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report."
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"Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points."
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"There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it."
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"It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself."
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"Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote."
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"What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by them."
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"If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am."
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"They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret."
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"A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."
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"All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it."
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"I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself."
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"If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging."
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"Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures."
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"There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder."
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"There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey."
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"When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced."
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"From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature."
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"Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up."
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"I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me."
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