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Virtue Quotes
"Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing."
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"Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice."
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"When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher."
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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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"Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself."
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"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."
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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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"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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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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"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
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"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."
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"Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent."
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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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"Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated."
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"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
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"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
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