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“So little knows any, but God alone, to value right the good before him, but perverts best things to worst abuse, or to their meanest use.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“For the function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil; whereas, inasmuch as all things morally wrong are evil, trickery prefers the evil to the good.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

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“The third principle is the motive: for instance when a man is moved by one whom he loves, to do good to someone: for whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent—I name no names.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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“Through the gathering momentum of millions of acts of service and decency and kindness, I know we can overcome evil with greater good.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

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“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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