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Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things. – John Adams, Journal entry (6 August 1796).
"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." – Augustine of Hippo, as quoted in Manipulus Florum (c. 1306)
"View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own." – Charles Churchill, "The Rosciad" (1761), line 1,023.