It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
~
The Scarlet Letter
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Hot hate is twin brother to hot love."
~
Sir Nigel
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
~
Silas Marner
by
George Eliot
"Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other."
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The Parasite
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
"From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
~
Moby Dick
by
Herman Melville