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#virtues

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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.


Oliver Goldsmith


#modesty #nobler #resides #seldom #virtues

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.


Joseph Hall


#moderation #pearl #running #silken #string

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?


Sydney J. Harris


#anyone #cent #comes #complete #else

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.


Elizabeth Taylor


#generally #going #people #pretty #problem

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.


Maya Angelou


#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.


Joseph Addison


#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.


Stephen Ambrose


#came #character #choice #first #nation

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.


William Ames


#arises #bears #between #communion #double

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.


Giraldus Cambrensis


#confounded #contrary #delightful #evil #good

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.


Giraldus Cambrensis


#begs #common #consider #ever #first






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