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"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."
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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"
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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."
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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"
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"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."
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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."
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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
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"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
Ambition
"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."
Opportunity
"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."
Destruction
"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."
Virtue
"It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity."
Genius
"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."
Nature
"It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory."
Man
"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."
Truth
"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
Man
"Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune."
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