#virtue

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ↗

— Charles Revson

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. ↗

— Silius Italicus

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. ↗

— John Morley

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