#virtue

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

— Ethel Waters

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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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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ↗

— James Oliver

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We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#virtue #age

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. ↗

— John Herschel

#self-respect #virtue

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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