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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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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit."
Soul

"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."
Heart

"He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together."
Friendship

"Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others."
Men

"Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend."
Friendship

"When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying."
Trust

"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."
God

"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."
People

"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."
Fool

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