Virtuous Quotes
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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
John Milton
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A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion--
To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
William Shakespeare
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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
John Milton
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.
George Washington
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Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.
George Washington
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There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
Aristotle
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There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.
Confucius
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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
John Milton
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
Ajahn Chah
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One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.
Anthony the Great
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
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Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.
Cato the Younger
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There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the spirit who is confident and courageous because she is virtuous.
Elaine S. Dalton
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Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium.
George Antheil
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The sweetest cordial we receive at last,
Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
William Goffe
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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges;
but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether
the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner,
would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.
George Bernard Shaw