Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.Lafcadio Hearn
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
Lafcadio Hearn
All the best work is done the way ants do things- by tiny, untiring and regular additions.
Lafcadio Hearn
We have been brought up to think that there can be nothing better than virtue, than duty, than strictly following the precepts of a good religion.
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There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
Lafcadio Hearn
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