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Virtue Quotes
"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."
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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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"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
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"One should never direct people towards happiness, becausehappiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should directthem towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its preycan be happy too, but only human beings can feel affectionfor each other, and this is the highest achievement they canaspire to."
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"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."
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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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"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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"When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice."
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"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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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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"Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem."
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"I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be moving like a flood across the world. Thank you for knowing there is a better way. Thank you for the will to say no. Thank you for the strength to deny temptation and look beyond and above to the shining light of your eternal potential."
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"In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues."
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"Women work a good many miracles and I have a persuasion that they may preform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings. Let the boys be boys the longer the better and let the young men sew their wild oats if they must, but mothers, sisters and friends may help to make the crop a small one and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest by believing and showing that they believe in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women's eyes."
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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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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning."
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"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
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"Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore."
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"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness."
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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 firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
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"Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease."
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"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
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"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."
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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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"This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds."
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"Affectation of candour is common enough-one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design-to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad-belongs to you alone."
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"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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