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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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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated."
"Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you."
"In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
"Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue."
"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
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"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."
"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
"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."
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"
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