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Francis Atterbury

"Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."

Francis Atterbury, English Politician
Virtue, Affliction, Confidence, School
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"Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."

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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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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

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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."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer
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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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