"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
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“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.”
“Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.”
“A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.”
More on Good And Evil
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
“Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.”
“It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”
More on Goodness
“It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.”
“... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.”
“I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.”