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"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."

"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."

"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."

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

"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

"Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself."
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"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."

"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."
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