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"Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself."
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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."
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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."
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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."
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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
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"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."
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"If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?"
Doubt
"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"
Public
"After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?"
History
"They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued."
Time
"In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort."
Power
"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."
Man
"Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God."
God
"Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot."
Peace
"It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men."
Man
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