#virtue

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#versa #vice #vice versa #virtue

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. ↗

— Kong Fu Zi

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There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices. ↗

— Danny Sugerman

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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. ↗

— Francis Arinze

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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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