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On the contrary, Good is more self-diffusive than evil.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Hazlitt's thoughts were of the same fractured and discontinuous order as his illustrative images—seldom or never self-diffusive; and that is a sufficient argument that he had never cultivated philosophic thinking.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

But an error of principle does not terminate in itself; it is a fountain; it is self-diffusive; and it has a life of its own.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas