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

Virtue, Chastity, Wrong

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

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."

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"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are."

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"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour."

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"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."

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"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."

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"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

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"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

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"Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules, it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities."

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"Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not see."

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"What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity."

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