“It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Letter to Robert Bridges (1 September 1885)
Letters, etc
“Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”
Source: The Thousandfold Thought
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Context: Listen now to a series of sayings that always come hard to brave people. Our own great movement will grow with its own impetus wherever it is not blighted. We will break up persons of blight and centers of blight. But often, and this will be the hard part for all of you to understand, we will warn and advise before we kill. And quite often we will not kill at all. Try to understand this.