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A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

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Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

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Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

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A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

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Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

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Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

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There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

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