Virtue Quotes
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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Virtue proceeds through effort.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.
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The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
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There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
