#virtue

Uncommon valor was a common virtue. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

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Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. ↗

— Major Owens

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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. ↗

— William Penn

#deserve #love #more #must #praise

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#below #enough #happiness #know #man

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#decencies #dwell #endeavour #ever #finds

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ↗

— Jane Porter

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