Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When something is not good, it's bad. Period.
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
Good things are often birthed from adversity.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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