"Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . ."

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Source : Francis Hutcheson (1769). “An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections”, p.7

Francis Hutcheson

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“EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; onâ€”onâ€”and out of sight. Everyoneâ€™s voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.”
“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”
“My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.”
“Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.”
“People who are obsessed with Jesus give freely and openly without censure. Obsessed people love those who hate them and who can never love them back.”
“Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.”
“I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.”
“In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.”

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