#virtues

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community. ↗

— Veronica Roth

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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The home is the chief school of human virtues. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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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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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. ↗

— Satchel Paige

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