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"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"
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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."
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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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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."
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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
Man
"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
People
"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
Truth
"The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice."
Power
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
Friendship
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
Experience
"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."
Food
"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
Virtue
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
Power
"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
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