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Virtue Quotes
"Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction."
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"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."
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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces."
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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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"Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction."
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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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"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."
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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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"Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
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"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
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"My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness."
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"Virtue is reason which has become energy."
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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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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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"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."
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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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"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
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"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."
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"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
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"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated."
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"Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors."
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"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
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"To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue."
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"Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you."
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