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Liberalism if it admits these things as indifferent, surrenders its own raison d’être, and ceases to strive for an ethical cause.
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Morley argues that liberalism must maintain its ethical foundations to remain relevant and effective.
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Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
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