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"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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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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"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."
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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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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
Money
"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
Death
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
Doubt
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
Architecture
"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
God
"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
Virtue
"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
God
"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
Friendship
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
People
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
Man
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