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Virtue Quotes
"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
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"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness."
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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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"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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"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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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
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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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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
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"We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue."
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"To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject."
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"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."
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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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"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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"Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God."
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"Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The only reward of virtue is virtue, the only way to have a friend is to be one."
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"Live simply, share your wealth with others."
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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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"Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem."
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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."
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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."
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"Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed."
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