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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
 What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the 
dark.  
 What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the 
dark. 
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell
 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the 
world, why, as though living in the read more 
 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the 
world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to 
ordinances,
 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
  Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments 
and doctrines of men? 
 Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are 
easy to learn.
 [Sp., Como el hacer read more 
 Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are 
easy to learn.
 [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, facilmente se 
aprende el hacerle.] 
It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.