Virtue Quotes
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Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
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Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images you're holding in your mind. It's what you're thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.
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Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
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It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.
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The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.
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Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.
