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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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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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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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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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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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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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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
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"For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."
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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."
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"Great thoughts always come from the heart."
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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
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"All grand thoughts come from the heart."
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"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."
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"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
People

"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."
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"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them."
Men
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