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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. – Joseph Addison

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legal
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Serenity
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Joseph Addison

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The excess of virtue is a vice. – Greek Proverb

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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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There is no road or ready way to virtue. – Sir Thomas Browne

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Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven. – Pierre Corneille

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. – Richard Bach

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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Society

And understandably so, that when youre in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media. – Monica Lewinsky

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