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Virtue Quotes
"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."
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"The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it."
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"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."
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"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
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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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"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated."
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"Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces."
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"Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction."
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"Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice."
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"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
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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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"Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue."
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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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"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."
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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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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
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"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."
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"I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue."
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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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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own 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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"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."
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