William Shakespeare Quotes
A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
Quotes to Explore
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
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Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.
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The star of that year's conference was undoubtedly the Swedish conservative leader—since Prime Minister—who delivered a speech of such startling Thatcherite soundness that in applauding I felt as if I was giving myself a standing ovation.
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A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
