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The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. ↗

— John Jewel

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen them: men who were monsters of philanthropy and women who were dragons of purity. ... No, no - nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modesly around it. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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

— Ethel Waters

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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. ↗

— John Locke

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