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Virtue Quotes
"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
110
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
99
"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
89
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
83
"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."
75
"When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher."
69
"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
68
"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."
67
"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
66
"Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."
66
"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."
65
"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
65
"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."
64
"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
64
"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."
64
"We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals."
64
"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."
63
"Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us."
62
"So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes."
61
"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him."
59
"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
59
"The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it."
59
"Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they."
58
"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."
57
"Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice."
57
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