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Quote by Sidney Lanier
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon you

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. – Sidney Lanier

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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. – Origen

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. – Erica Jong

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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. – Felix Frankfurter

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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. – Josh Billings

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