#virtues

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ↗

— Rebecca West

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It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗

— James Wolcott

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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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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

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

— Maya Angelou

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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. ↗

— Akhenaton

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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

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