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title: "2 Knew Virtue Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-masters-painted-for-joy-and-knew-not-that-virtue-had-gone-out-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mallet/who-hath-not-known-ill-fortune-never-knew-himself-or-his-own-virtue/)

[David Mallet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mallet/)

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