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"Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into 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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"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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"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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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
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"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
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"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
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"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"
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"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."
Age
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
Age
"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."
Money
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."
Art
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
Progress
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
Work
"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."
Creativity
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
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