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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

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