“Great necessities call out great virtues”
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“Great necessities call out great virtues”
“Morality is a private and costly luxury”
“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt”
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity”
“There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country”
“Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man”
“Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice”
“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world”
“Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another”
“Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge”
“The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil”
“The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good”
“You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.”
“Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules”
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only”
“None but blockheads copy each other”
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good”
“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm”
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization”