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"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."
"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."
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"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."
"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."
"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."
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