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Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882] American Poet (with poems)
Quote rank: 405

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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.

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Death, Positive

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