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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"
"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."
"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
Explore more quotes by Lionel Trilling
"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."
"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."
"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
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