"For there is grace, there are principalities and powers, there is unknown good which
flies magnetically toward the good we know… Human frailty forms a system, and faults
in the past have their endless spreading network of results. We are not good people, and
we shall always be involved in that great network. All we can do is constantly to notice
when we begin to act badly, to check ourselves, to go back, to coax our weakness and
inspire our strength, to call upon the names of virtues of which we know perhaps only the
names. We are not good people, and the best we can hope for is to be gentle, to forgive
each other and to forgive the past, to be forgiven ourselves and to accept this
forgiveness and to return again to the beautiful unexpected strangeness of the
world."
--The Nice and the Good.
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