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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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"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!"
"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."
"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."
"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt."
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
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