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"We are made kind by being kind."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."
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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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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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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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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."
Man
"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
God
"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
Habit
"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
News
"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
People
"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."
Giving
"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
Body
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
Soul
"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
Soul
"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."
Evil
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