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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
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Virtue is the strength and power of daughters of God. ... If all humanity really understood the importance of the statement ‘We are daughters of our Heavenly Father,’ how would women be regarded and treated?
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I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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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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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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In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
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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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It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked.
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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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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
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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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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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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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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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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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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
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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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He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
