Virtue Quotes
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.
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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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But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
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It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...
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Fidelity is an overrated virtue. I feel so because people hardly follow it and so it becomes overrated.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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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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Praise is the reflection of virtue.
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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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If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
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Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
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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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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
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We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
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[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.
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The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.
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The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
