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James H. Aughey

The great comprehensive truths, written in letters of living light on every page of our history, are these: Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom, none but virtue; virtue, none but knowledge; and neither freedom nor virtue has any vigor or immortal hope except the principles of the Christian faith...

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Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Character | Hope | Need | Nothing |

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Charles Simmons

Recreation is not being idle; it is easing the wearied part by change of occupation. To re-create strength, rest. To re-create mind, repose. To re-create cheerfulness, hope in God, or change the object of attention to one more elevated and worthy of thought.

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Sydney Smith

That charity alone endures which flows from a sense of duty and a hope in God. this is the charity that treads in secret those paths of misery from which all but the lowest of human wretches have fled; this is that charity which no labor can weary, no ingratitude detach, no horror disgust; that toils, that pardons, that suffers; that is seen by no man, and honored by no man, but, like the great laws of Nature, does the work of God in silence, and looks to a future and better world for its reward.

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Marjorie Bowen, pen names included Joseph Shearing, George R. Preddy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell, Pseudonym of Mrs Garbrielle Margaret Vere Long née Campbell

The wages of sin and the reward of virtue are not so different.

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Erwin H. Schell

Man is at his best when stimulated by hope of reward, fear of failure, and the light of a star.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors’ failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

Character | Hope | Forgive | Friends |

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George Stanley, fully George Francis Gillman Stanley

To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldiers and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.

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Zeno of Citium NULL

Virtue is worth seeking for its own sake, and not from hope or fear or any external motive.

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William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love.

Admiration | Character | Hope | Love |

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Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL

To abstain from sin when a man cannot sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Man | Sin | Wisdom |

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Herbert Sebastian Agar

Every civilization rests on a set of promises... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

Civilization | Faith | Hope | Wisdom |

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Zeno of Citium NULL

One should seek virtue for its own sake and not from hope or fear, or any external motive. It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

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Francis Atterbury

Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.

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Simeon ben Yohai, aka Simon ben Yohai or Rashbi or Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai

To cause a man to sin is worse than to murder him.

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Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL

All sin is a form of lying...Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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