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"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
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"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."
"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated."
"Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you."
"In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
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"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
"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."
"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
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