Virtue Quotes

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Without courage, all other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey
Humility is a virtue when you have no other. — Edward Abbey
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist. — Edward Abbey
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic… — Edward Abbey
The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness. — Edward Abbey
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. — Edmund Burke
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave… — Edmund Burke
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them… — Edmund Burke
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. — John Robert Seeley
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating… — Samuel Adams
I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and… — Samuel Adams
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the… — Samuel Adams
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and… — Thomas Jefferson
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue.… — Benjamin Franklin
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall… — Benjamin Franklin
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with… — Patrick Henry
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here… — Thomas Paine
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our… — Kurt Vonnegut
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the… — Ida B. Wells
Virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge… — John Milton
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. — Oliver Goldsmith
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him… — William Cowper
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it?… — Abraham Maslow

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