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“The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.”

Book Whole Jobs Language Morality Pure Bible Perfection Regard Simplicity Noble Scripture Comparison Exceed Sublimity

Author:Alexander Pope

“Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)”

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Author:African Spir

“Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.”

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Book:The Light Within Us

Source: The Light Within Us

“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality”

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Book:Utilitarianism

Source: Utilitarianism

“For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.”

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Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .”

Struggle Morality Perfection Bounds Proof

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities. New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.”

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Author:Abdu'l-Bahá