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"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."
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"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!"

"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."

"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""

"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."

"Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!"

"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."
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