All Virtues
Cheerfulness
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Brendan Steven
Chief Writer
UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
“I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.”
Laurence Sterne
Industriousness
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Peter Copeland
Director of Policy & Stakeholder Relations
Ontario’s Solicitor General
“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.”
Charles Spurgeon
“To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle as well.”
Henry Ward Beecher
Studiousness
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Geoffrey Woollard
“Studiositas [diligence] means especially this: that a person resists the nearly inescapable temptation to indiscipline with all the power of selfless self-protection, that he radically closes off the inner space of his life against the pressingly unruly pseudo-reality of empty sounds and sights - in order that, through and only through this asceticism of perception, he might safeguard or recoup that which truly constitutes man's living existence: to perceive the reality of God and of creation and to shape himself and the world by the truth that discloses itself only in silence.”
Josef Pieper, A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart