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"There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses, --only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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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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"He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both."
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"Live life with great humility."
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"Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value."
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"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
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"A man is known by the books he reads."
Knowledge
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
Friendship
"The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy."
Success
"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art."
Art
"I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today."
History
"Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!"
Responsibility
"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
Beauty
"All diseases run into one, old age."
Life
"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book."
Art
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
Self
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