A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles DarwinAbout author
- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: english
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 19, 1882
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When I Have Fears When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting...
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