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"For my own Part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring Favours, but as paying Debts. In my Travels, and since my Settlement, I have received much Kindness from Men, to whom I shall never have any Opportunity of making the least direct Return. And numberless Mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our Services. Those Kindnesses from Men, I can therefore only Return on their Fellow Men; and I can only shew my Gratitude for these mercies from God, by a readiness to help his other Children and my Brethren. For I do not think that Thanks and Compliments, tho' repeated weekly, can discharge our real Obligations to each other, and much less those to our Creator."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
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"We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality."
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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."
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"People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice."
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"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it."
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"By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally."
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"Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters."
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"At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!"
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"Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-or more complicated-than it is today."
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"God helps them that helps themselves."
Self-Help
"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us."
Ambition
"Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt."
Education
"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."
Success
"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
Productivity
"A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."
Morality
"After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy."
Life
"Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge."
Wisdom
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
Wisdom
"If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles."
Wisdom
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