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Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more,—and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

— Mary Abigail Dodge Country Living and Country Thinking (1862)

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Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

Country Living and Country Thinking (1862)

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine. It is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

Country Living and Country Thinking (1862)

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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