#virtue

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. ↗

— Akhenaton

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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

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Compassion is not a popular virtue. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. ↗

— James Buchan

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