"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

Virtue, Light, Moon, Sea

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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

Rules

"Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship."

Nature

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

Conscience

"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

Heaven

"The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."

Heaven

"I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words."

Silence

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

Death

"Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung."

Order

"Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky."

Poetry

"Where no hope is left is left no fear."

Reflection