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"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness."
"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
"Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle."
"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
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"She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good."
"He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever."
"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."
"In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind."
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