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"Virtue is insufficient temptation."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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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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"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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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
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"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
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"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."
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"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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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
Being
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
Culture
"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."
Values
"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."
Self
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
Society
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
Society
"You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his."
Loss
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
Love
"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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