“The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.”
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
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Appearance and Reality, preface http://books.google.com/books?id=EtgtAAAAYAAJ&q=%22of+optimism+I+have+said+that+The+world+is+the+best+of+all+possible+worlds+and+everything+in+it+is+a+necessary+evil%22&pg=PR14#v=onepage (1893).
“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
My Specter, st. 14
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)