"Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward."

Virtue, Act, Reward

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

John Milton, English Poet

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"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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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?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"A religion without mystery must be a religion without God."

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"He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason."

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"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."

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"Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth."

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"Love is friendship set on fire."

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"A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity."

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"He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine."

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"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition."

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"If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous."

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"It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not."

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