#virtues

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ↗

— Don Marquis

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One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. ↗

— Neville Marriner

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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

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Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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