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"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"
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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."
"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."
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
"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."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
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