#virtue

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. ↗

— Thomas Gold

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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ↗

— James Goldsmith

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And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. ↗

— Colossians

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In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like. ↗

— Os Guinness

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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ↗

— John Herschel

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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

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What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small. ↗

— Richard Mentor Johnson

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The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source. ↗

— El Lissitzky

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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. ↗

— John Robert Seeley

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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ↗

— Emil Ludwig

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