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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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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."
"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
"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."
"One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions."
"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
"Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering."
"Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God."
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"Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means."
"Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity."
"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."
"Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something."
"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."
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