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Virtue Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
- Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
- Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
- Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
- For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness…
- Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for…
- Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among…
- Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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