A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will—in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains—nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

— William Ernest Hocking The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)

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