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"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
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"We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us."
"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."
"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."
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"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."
"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."
"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."
"Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together."
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