You know, my boy, he said, ...

You know, my boy, he said, it\'s impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you\'re a man too. For, if you\'re even a little above average intelligence, you\'ll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they\'d rather love out of fear. Don\'t give in to such love: despise it always.
You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.
 Fyodor Dostoevsky

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A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
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