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Virtue Quotes
"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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"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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"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."
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"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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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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"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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"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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"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
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"Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice."
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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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"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated."
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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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"Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces."
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"Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue."
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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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"Virtue is reason which has become energy."
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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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"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."
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"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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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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"Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue."
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"Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue."
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