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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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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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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."
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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."
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"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."
Soul
"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."
Man
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
Influence
"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."
Emotional
"When all else is lost, the future still remains."
Future
"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon."
Mystery
"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
Friendship
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."
Doubt
"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."
Nature
"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."
Earth
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