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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"
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"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
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