“Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.”
Section 5
Hainish Cycle, The Word for World Is Forest (1972)
“The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.”
about 1900, page 429
John of the Mountains, 1938
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VII, 29
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Context: Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present.... Divide and distribute every object into the causal [formal] and the material.... Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
“Hearing what you've done right is valuable. Hearing what you've done wrong can be priceless.”
Ron Kaufman
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Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile (2005)
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
