#virtue

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

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Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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Compassion is not a popular virtue. ↗