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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."

"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

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

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."
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"If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance."

"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers."

"These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it."

"All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you."

"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."

"If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment."

"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."

"Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny."
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