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All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.

— Anne Bronte

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

— Plato

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

— Erskine Bowles

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

— Morihei Ueshiba

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

— Saint Basil

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

— Hale White

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

— John Dickey

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

— Xun Kuang

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

— Alain Badiou

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