Quote by William Hazlitt
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being un

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. – William Hazlitt

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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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Every human being has… an attendant spirit…. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. – Lydia M. Child

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If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. – Samuel P. Ginder

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. – Thomas Paine (1737–1809), Rights of Man

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Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependent upon popular opinion? – William Lloyd Garrison

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