#virtue

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ↗

— Confucius

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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ↗

— Confucius

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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. ↗

— John Dryden

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