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Virtue Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in…
- A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
- Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will…
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens…
- If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
- There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good…
- Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
- A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
- Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,…
- The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that…
- Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
- Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
- Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
- Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
- A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than…
- Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not…
- There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
- Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!
- Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
- Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue…
- Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
- When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.
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- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
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- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine