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“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.”
John Milton
Virtue
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Challenge
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Moral Strength
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Experience
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Life Struggle
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“Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.”
John Milton
Virtue
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Inner Light
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Moral Strength
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Guidance
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Self-reliance
3.
“More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.”
John Milton
Perseverance
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Adversity
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Poetry
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Moral Strength
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Human Voice
4.
“Virtue that wavers is not virtue.”
John Milton
Virtue
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Constancy
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Moral Strength
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Integrity
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Character
5.
“It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.”
John Milton
Chastity
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Virtue
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Protection
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Moral Strength
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Personification
6.
“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
John Milton
Defense
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Silence
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Integrity
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False Accusation
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Moral Strength
7.
“Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.”
John Milton
Virtue
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Constancy
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Moral Strength
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Righteousness
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Human Nature
8.
“Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.”
John Milton
Beauty
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Weakness
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Captivity
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Perception
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Moral Strength
9.
“Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.”
John Milton
Virtue
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Freedom
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Aspiration
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Moral Strength
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Divine Favor
10.
“Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.”
John Milton
Virtue
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Resilience
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Adversity
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Triumph
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Moral Strength
11.
“If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one’s own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.”
Simone Weil
Faith Obedience
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Divine Dilemma
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Spiritual Loyalty
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Moral Strength
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Life Reflection
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Eternal Choice
12.
“Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.”
Simone Weil
Purity
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Defilement
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Contemplation
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Moral Strength
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Spiritual Insight
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Ethical Perception
13.
“It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level.”
Simone Weil
Forgiveness
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Self-perception
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Adversity
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Personal Growth
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Moral Strength
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Spiritual Insight
14.
“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
William Butler Yeats
Moral Strength
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Triumph Over Trials
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Inner Nobility
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Temptation
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Trial
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Strength
15.
“Integrity, humor, and patience were the three words for Atticus Finch.”
Harper Lee
Character Traits
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Moral Strength
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Personal Virtues
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Integrity
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Humor
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Patience
16.
“It is not enough to be a good person. you must also have the courage to do the right thing.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Courage Right
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Moral Strength
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Personal Integrity
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Doing Good
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Ethical Behavior
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Courage Needed
17.
“Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.”
George Eliot
Firm Decisions
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Personal Integrity
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Moral Strength
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Inner Resolve
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Personal Conviction
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Unwavering Belief
18.
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Conscience Courage
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Eight Parts
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Moral Strength
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Conscience
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Courage
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Strength
19.
“Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Virtues Foundation
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Moral Strength
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Footstool Courage
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Virtues
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Strength
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Courage
20.
“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Goodness
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Humility
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Personal Virtues
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Moral Strength
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World Challenges
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Self-improvement
21.
“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.”
Carl Jung
Self Acceptance
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Moral Strength
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Life Philosophy
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Acceptance
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Self
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Life
22.
“When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.”
Marcus Aurelius
Compassionate Living
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Moral Strength
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Social Understanding
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Compassion
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Morality
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Strength
23.
“Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.”
Marcus Aurelius
Act Principles
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Moral Strength
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Perseverance Mindset
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Strength
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Principles
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Action
24.
“Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.”
Marcus Aurelius
Integrity First
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Moral Strength
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Ethical Choices
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Integrity
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Choices
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Ethics
25.
“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
Stephen King
Leadership Courage
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Dangerous Leaders
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Cowardice In Power
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Moral Strength
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Responsibility
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Leadership Flaws
26.
“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”
Jane Austen
Strong Principles
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Moral Strength
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Personal Integrity
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Conviction
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Decisions
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Integrity
27.
“The good renounce everything. The pure don’t babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.”
Buddha
Pure Renunciation
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Wise Calmness
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Pleasure And Pain
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Moral Strength
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Inner Serenity
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Detached Living
28.
“There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.”
George R. R. Martin
Just Power
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Terrifying Justice
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Moral Strength
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Power
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Justice
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Strength
29.
“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
John F. Kennedy
American future
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National power
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Moral strength
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Leadership
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Purpose
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Wisdom
30.
“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.”
John F. Kennedy
Courage lost
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Public life
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Nation's leaders
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Moral strength
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Leadership
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Responsibility
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