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• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
• We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. — Henry David Thoreau
• We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau
• Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation. — Thomas Adams
• Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better… — Eric Liu
• Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather… — Thomas a Kempis
• If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps… — John Brown
• Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal
• The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke
• For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff
• We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain… — Anchee Min

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