#virtue

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America. ↗

— James H. Douglas

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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. ↗

— William Slim

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Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

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Virtue alone has majesty in death. ↗

— Edward Young

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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. ↗

— Frances Wright

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Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. ↗

— Martin Yan

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