Virtue Quotes

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A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded… — Unknown Author
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more… — John Stuart Mill
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone. — William Wordsworth
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw
Chastity - you can carry it too far. — Mark Twain
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes… — Mark Twain
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the… — Abraham Lincoln
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. — William Shakespeare
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. — William Hazlitt
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue… — Benjamin Rush
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue. — Charles Dudley Warner
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or… — Oscar Wilde
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. — Michel de Montaigne
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. — Thomas Browne

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