To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.
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