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Virtue Quotes by William Penn
- Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
- If men be good, government cannot be bad.
- Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
- In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a…
- We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
- Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in,…
- 1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn To be like…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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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