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Virtue Quotes
"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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"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."
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"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
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"Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction."
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"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."
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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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"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices."
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"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
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"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
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"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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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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"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
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"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
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"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."
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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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"In the long run, the public interest depends on private 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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"Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces."
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"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
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"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."
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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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"Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue."
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