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"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
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"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
"There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!"
"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."
"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."
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