James Coleman
Favorite Quotes
"(. . .) I have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our life is bound forever on man's shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure" (81).
One cannot simply ignore a dismal part of oneself and hope for it to vanish, or have is cast off, in hopes that it will not return. If we do not deal with these dark aspects of ourselves, if we do not recognize it as a part of us, that part will only grow until it consumes the soul.
"If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also"(43).
"Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; (..) I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it"(91).
One cannot simply ignore a dismal part of oneself and hope for it to vanish, or have is cast off, in hopes that it will not return. If we do not deal with these dark aspects of ourselves, if we do not recognize it as a part of us, that part will only grow until it consumes the soul.
"If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also"(43).
"Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; (..) I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it"(91).
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