Virtue Quotes
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Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
Andrew Murray
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When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.
Lao Tzu
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O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.
Gemma Galgani
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Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
William Penn
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
William Wordsworth
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
William Ellery Channing
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But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.
Johannes Kepler
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Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.
Aristotle
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The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
Lao Tzu
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
William Cowper
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
