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Virtue Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
- No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it…
- Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without…
- There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
- If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our…
- Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other…
- The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
- Virtue is too often merely local.
- Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
- There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do…
- Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
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