"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."

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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."

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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!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

John Milton, English Poet

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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?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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!"

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

"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?"

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

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

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

"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."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."

"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."

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"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

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