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“Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.”

Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840

“Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.”

Men Birth Habit Vices Contrary Savages Disposition

Author:Plutarch

“No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.”

Men Virtue Birth Glory Add Clouds Vices Distinction Tweens

Author:William Habington

“This new birth in Christ, thus firmly believed and continually desired, will do everything that thou wantest to have done in thee, it will dry up all the springs of vice, stop all the workings of evil in thy nature, it will bring all that is good into thee, it will open all the gospel within thee, and thou wilt know what it is to be taught of God.”

Knows Done Christian Evil Christ Religious Taught Birth Spring Vices Thee Dry Dry Up

Book:The Spirit of Prayer : Or, the Soul Rising Out of the Vanity of Time, Into the Riches of Eternity

Source: The Spirit of Prayer : Or, the Soul Rising Out of the Vanity of Time, Into the Riches of Eternity

“Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.”

Men Seems Virtue Birth Capable Bounds Vices Determined Wicked

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.”

Virtue Birth Vices Karma Chains Wheels Drag Rebirth Forged Birth And Death Bad Karma Good Karma

Book:Karma

Source: Karma

“Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.”

Virtue Share Birth Glory Claims Vices Endeavor Ancestor

Author:Moliere

“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.”

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson