That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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Samuel Johnson in The Rambler, no. 148 (17 August 1751).Joseph Addison
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When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.
Fidel Castro
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.William Cowper
It is not the motive, properly speaking, that determines the working of the will; but it is the will that imparts strength to the motive. As Coleridge says: " It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man."
James McCosh
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