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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated."
"Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you."
"In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
"Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue."
"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
Explore more quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own."
"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."
"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."
"How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism."
"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."
"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."
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