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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."
47
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
43
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
37
"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."
34
"Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us."
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"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
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"There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices."
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"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
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"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
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"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."
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"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."
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"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
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"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."
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"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."
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"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."
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"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."
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"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."
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"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
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"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
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"When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher."
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"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"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."
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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
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"For many generations, they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin they reckoned that qualities of character were far more important than their present prosperity. So they bore the burden of their wealth and possessions lightly, and did not let their high standard of living intoxicate them or make them lose their self-control. But when the divine element in them became weakened and their human traits became predominant, they ceased to be able to carry their prosperity with moderation."
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