A Quote by William Golding
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
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I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which makes man August in the eyes of men) have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling com passion as the common inheritance of us all.
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I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!
Fairly examined, truly understood,
No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.
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