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Virtue Quotes
"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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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
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"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
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"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."
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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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"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
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"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."
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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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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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"Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue."
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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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"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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"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."
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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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"Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid."
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"I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case."
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"Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself."
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
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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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"Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a 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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