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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. – Aristotle

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. – Aristotle

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot

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[Y]our life is a journey, not a rest. You are travelling to the promised land, from the cradle to the grave. – The Sunday at Home, December 7th 1854

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