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Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Emotion
It is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXVIIIIn context
“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural,” answered Miss Rebecca. “I’m no angel.”
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter IIIn context
Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), Volume I: Fantine, Book First: A Just Man, Chapter VIIIn context
- Fear
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book III: The Sensualists, Chapter IIIIn context
- Beauty
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- Animals
I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- God
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part Eight, Chapter 12In context
- Virtue
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AllIn context
And oftentimes to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene III, spoken by BanquoIn context
- Truth & Lies
Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene V, spoken by Lady MacbethIn context
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act II, Scene II, spoken by MacbethIn context
It will have blood, they say, blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Justice
I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context