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Charles Caleb Colton

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

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"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

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"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."

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"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."

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"Live simply, share your wealth with others."

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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
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"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author."
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"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
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"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."
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