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To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just. ↗

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#bitter #evil #i #lies #prophesy

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#doctrine #numbers #others #over #persons

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#away #being #between #difference #driver

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Life is half spent before we know what it is. ↗

— George Herbert

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Living well is the best revenge. ↗