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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

We have too many high-sounding words, , too few actions that correspond with them.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one’s own efforts.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.