Virtue Quotes
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It's a poor sort of virtue that has no roots in love. It's why you do or don't do a thing that matters most to my mind. If love of God comes first with you then you deny yourself to keep His commandments, you give away your whole life to Him and glory in what the world calls loss.
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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
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To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.
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The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.
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Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessings—even 'all that he hath.'
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.
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In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.
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Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
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In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
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So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.
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Even if I tried to tell myself that I had given him nothing, that the children were mostly mine, that they had remained within the radius of my body, subject to my care, still I couldn't avoid thinking what aspects of his nature inevitably lay hidden in them. Mario would explode suddenly from inside their bones, now, over the days, over the years, in ways that were more and more visible. How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
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In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
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The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
