"Nature turns all malfaisance to good...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature turns all malfaisance to good.
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“A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.”
“Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.”
“The order of things consents to virtue.”
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“On a day - alack the day! -Love, whose month is ever May,Spied a blossom passing fairPlaying in the wanton air”
“The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.”
“I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.”
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“The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.”
“Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it”
“The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.”