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Quote by Joseph Addison
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prospe

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. – Joseph Addison

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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison

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Wisdom
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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – Joseph Addison

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 24 – Bible

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For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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Virtue is insufficient temptation. – George Bernard Shaw

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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 only reason for time is so that everything doesnt happen at once. – Albert Einstein

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. – Saint Augustine

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There is a way of breathing that’s a shame and a suffocation and there’s another way of expiring, a love breath, that lets you open infinitely. – Rumi

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Im ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of Starsky and Hutch as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think its stupid – theyd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up. – Shane Black

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