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1. Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a man is to be good, even though he were never to be rewarded for it.
2. "When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
3. "Ahab is born among us every day, and in this world he never ceases to exist."
4. "The mind of him that worketh ill is not always corrupt; but the mind of him that defendeth evil is ever corrupt."
5. "Clean and unclean birds, the dove and the raven, are yet in the ark."
6. "If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it."
7. "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
8. "To return good for good is human; to return evil for evil is brutal; to return evil for good is diabolical; but to return good for evil is Divine."
9. "Of two evils choose neither."
10. "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
