"Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far."

Virtue, Faith, Love, Charity

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"Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise; but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far."

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"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

Rumi, Persian Poet

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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

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"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

John Green, American Author

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"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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

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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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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."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

Books

"But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty."

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"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."

Struggle

"Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship."

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"Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky."

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"Deep versed in books and shallow in himself."

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"A heaven on earth."

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"And so sepAolchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die."

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"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."

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"So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal."

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