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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 would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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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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"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
Heaven

"A closed mouth catches no flies."
Leadership

"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
Virtue

"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."
Time

"Man appoints, and God disappoints."
God

"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."
Recreation

"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."
Love

"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
Music

"To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope."
Fear

"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war."
War
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