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William Bennett

"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."

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"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."

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"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."

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"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

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Amber Hurdle

"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

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"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

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"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."

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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

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Amber Hurdle

"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."

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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

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"It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies."
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"Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."
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"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously."
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"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools."
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"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be."
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"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty."
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"The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day."
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"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
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"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
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"America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world."
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