#virtues

The home is the chief school of human virtues. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. ↗

— Juvenal

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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ↗

— Sidney Lanier

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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. ↗

— Francis John McConnell

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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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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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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