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“Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.”
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“Earth felt the wound,
and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her Works
gave signs of woe,
That all was lost.”
― Paradise Lost
and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her Works
gave signs of woe,
That all was lost.”
― Paradise Lost
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. Keimer”
― The Autobiography and Other Writings
― The Autobiography and Other Writings
“If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.”
― Apologia Pro Vita Sua
― Apologia Pro Vita Sua
“Moralists of the sternest persuasion would readily agree with Horace that neither high birth nor clever words can recommend the soul in the face of final judgement. But then the poet puts in his hammer blow: '... non te restituet pietas.' Not virtue itself is going to be any help. All, in fact, is vanity: not only gold and silver, not only worldly fame and accomplishment, but duty, faith, and purity too. The highest moral character can procure one no preference among the shades.”
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