Virtue Quotes
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... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.
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I am reminded of Housman's remark that 'accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.' To praise a historian for his accuracy is like praising an architect for using well-seasoned timber or properly mixed concrete in his building. It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest 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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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
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For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
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Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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There is explosive power in virtue.
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In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
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What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
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Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.
