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"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."
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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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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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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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"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."
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"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
Life
"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
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"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."
Virtue
"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
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"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
Time
"Look back, and smile on perils past."
Past
"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."
Life
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
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"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
Time
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