"Much that may seem evil can be good."

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"When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness-I am nothing."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?"

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully, treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth. For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.' 'But the Magdalen?' 'Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Ethics, Morality, Religion, Judgment, Truth

"If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it."

Oswald Chambers, Scottish Theologian

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"Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now."

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"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

Courage

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."

Creativity

"A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both."

Freedom

"Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity."

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"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."

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"When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness-I am nothing."

"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?"

"The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth."

"Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence."

"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

"If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!"

"Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it."

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"Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well."

"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."

"A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both."

"Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity."

"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."