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"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
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"For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue."
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"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
Truth
"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
Food
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
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"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."
Equality
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
Mankind
"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
Virtue
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
Experience
"No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever."
Earth
"The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means."
Power
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
Man
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