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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"
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"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."
"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
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