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"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
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"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
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"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
Virtue
"It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen."
Resentment
"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
Gentleman
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
Corruption
"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
Difficulty
"There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done."
War
"Growth is the only evidence of life."
Life
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
Fault
"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."
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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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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted."
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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