"There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it."
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"All high beauty has a moral element in it."
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"All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature."
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"Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil."
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"All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing."
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"Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses."
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"The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties."
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"The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical."
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"The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that."
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"There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank."
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"You are a totally loved moral failure."
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"Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act."
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"To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision."
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"The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth."
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"Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety."
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"Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test."
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"The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness."
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"Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable."
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"It's a moral question."
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"Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating."
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