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Virtue Quotes
"When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice."
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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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"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue."
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"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
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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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"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."
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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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"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue."
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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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"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
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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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"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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"Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem."
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"Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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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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"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
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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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"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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"Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction."
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"Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness."
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"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness."
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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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"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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"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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"Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself."
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"Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue."
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