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"My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."
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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."
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"He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both."
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"Live life with great humility."
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"Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value."
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"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
Experience

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
Work

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
Time

"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
Identity

". . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . ."
Behavior

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
People

"Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable."
Reflection

"I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me, you'd better go."
Relationship

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
Experience

"Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it."
Art
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