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"I almost wish I hadn't any conscience; its so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing sometimes that Father and Mother hadn't been so particular about such things. Ah Joe, instead of wishing that, thank God that Father and Mother were particular and pity from your heart those who have no such guardians to hedge them round with principles that may seem like prison walls to impatient youth, but which will prove sure foundations to build character upon in womanhood."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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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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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."
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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."
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"He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
Fun
"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
Power
"She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners."
Character
"A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well."
Emotional
"That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct."
Hope
"Be worthy love, and love will come."
Love
"Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning."
Direction
"How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest."
Happiness
"Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds."
Hope
"I can get on with wild beasts first-rate, but men rile me awfully."
Nature
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