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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

"One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions."

"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."

"Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering."

"Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God."
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"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart."


"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."


"Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?"


"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."
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