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Joseph Addison

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

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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!"

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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

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

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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

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Akiroq Brost

"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

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"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."
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"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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"Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion."
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"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."
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"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.""
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"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."
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
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"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!"
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"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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