Virtue Quotes
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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
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If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
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Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.
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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.
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Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me.
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Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
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The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
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Patience is not a virtue!
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
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Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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One overriding fact dominates all of modern civilization, the fact that the property of a single person can increase indefinitely, and even, by virtue of almost universal consent, encompass the entire world.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
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We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
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It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.
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All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.
