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"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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