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Virtue Quotes
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue is the daughter of religion; repentance, her adopted child, - a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears! (Virtue Quotes)
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments (Virtue Quotes)
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue (Virtue Quotes)
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue (Virtue Quotes)
Though whether the mass murder of strangers for one's principles ranks higher in virtue than attacking one's neighbours for the hell of it is a point I'm glad I don't have to settle (Virtue Quotes)
Compassion is not a virtue - it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have - it's something we choose to practice (Virtue Quotes)
The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it (Virtue Quotes)
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live! (Virtue Quotes)
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it (Virtue Quotes)
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit (Virtue Quotes)
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues (Virtue Quotes)
Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? (Virtue Quotes)
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint (Virtue Quotes)
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet, with my nobler reason, against my fury do I take part; the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance (Virtue Quotes)
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts (Virtue Quotes)
He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool; drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will be swine drunk, and in his sleep he does little harm, save to his bedclothes about him; but they know his conditions and lay him in straw (Virtue Quotes)
By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see (Virtue Quotes)
It’s great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he’s black (Virtue Quotes)
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist (Virtue Quotes)
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle (Virtue Quotes)
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright (Virtue Quotes)
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice (Virtue Quotes)
A man hasn’t got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined (Virtue Quotes)
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue (Virtue Quotes)
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality (Virtue Quotes)
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world (Virtue Quotes)
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes (Virtue Quotes)
Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in (Virtue Quotes)
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself (Virtue Quotes)