The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a … - Blaise Pascal

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I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.

Blaise Pascal

The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition. . . Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.

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Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

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