"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."

Virtue, Extreme, Mediocrity, Vice

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"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."

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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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

Rumi, Persian Poet

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

John Green, American Author

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"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."

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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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments."

Appearance

"Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times."

Debt

"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals."

People

"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power."

Power

"It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'"

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"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority."

Education

"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."

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"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."

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"No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office."

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"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible."

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