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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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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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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."
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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"To possess taste, one must have some soul."
Soul
"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
People
"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
Virtue
"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."
Thought
"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."
Men
"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."
People
"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."
Nature
"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."
Thought
"All grand thoughts come from the heart."
Heart
"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."
Society
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