| Be careful with hatred. Handle hatred with respect.
Hatred is too noble an emotion to be frittered away in little personal animosities.
Whereas love is of itself a reward and an object worth striving for, personal hatred has no triumphs that are not trivial, secondary and human.
Therefore love as foolishly as you may.
But hate only after long and ardent deliberation.
Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love.
Keep it for a cause, not an individual.
Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity.
For hatred is the strength of the sensitive.
Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.
Olive Moore, Collective Writings
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