“Good and evil! good and evil! ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being; and who may unthread the darker yarn?”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.”
Non è male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.
Storia d' Italia (1537-1540)
“Yes, this is what is good: to forgive evil. There is no other good.”
Sí, eso es el bien: perdonar el mal. No hay etro bien.
Voces (1943)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
Reputation
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
537-539
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
Context: A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Some Folks think they may Scold, Rail, Hate, Rob and Kill too; so it be but for God's sake. But nothing in us unlike him, can please him.
“The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.”
"No, Not One," The Adelphi (October 1941), p. 7 http://books.google.com/books?id=hdwYAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+choice+before+human+beings%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage- 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=hdwYAQAAIAAJ&q=%22is+not+as+a+rule+between+good+and+evil+but+between+two+evils%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage
Context: The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world: that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war, which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.
The Way of God's Will Chapter 1-4. Practice http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WofGW/wogw1-04.htm Translated 1980.
“See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”
“Welt muss mehr denn je diese Botschaft hören,” Giessener Allgemeine Zeitung, Giessen, Germany, April 12, 2005.
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