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"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated."
"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
"I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue."
"I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be moving like a flood across the world. Thank you for knowing there is a better way. Thank you for the will to say no. Thank you for the strength to deny temptation and look beyond and above to the shining light of your eternal potential."
"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."
"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
Explore more quotes by Lionel Trilling
"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."
"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."
"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."
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