#virtues

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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Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. ↗

— Kong Fu Zi

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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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Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ↗

— James Oliver

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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. ↗

— John Burns

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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. ↗

— Colossians

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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. ↗

— Thomas Moore

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