"Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something."

Virtue, Goodness, Service, Purpose, Values

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"Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something."

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Time

"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"

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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

History

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

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"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"

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"Between whom there is hearty truth there is love."

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"Every people have gods to suit their circumstances."

Philosophy

"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

Genius