"Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not."
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"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters."
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"Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life."
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"The unrighteous are never really fortunate."
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"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness."
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"I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart."
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"The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens."
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"Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil."
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"Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection."
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"Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other."
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"There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds."
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"The way to wickedness is always through wickedness."
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"Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot."
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"Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?"
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"My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North"
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"One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him."
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"Few men are wantonly wicked."
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"There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness."
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"All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep."
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"There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder."
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