We are apt to love praise, but not to deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than than.
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.William Penn
He that lives to forever, never fears dying.
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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty But to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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