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Samuel Johnson

"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

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

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"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."

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"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."

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"Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith."

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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

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"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."

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"Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office."

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"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness."

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