“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)
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about 1900, page 429
John of the Mountains, 1938
“Hearing what you've done right is valuable. Hearing what you've done wrong can be priceless.”
Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile (2005)
"The Ethics of Human Beings Toward Non-human Beings", pp. 278
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Ethical Kinship
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017)
“Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.”
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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.
“In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.”
Radio interview (November 2008)
“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.”
Monsieur D'Olive, Act I, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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