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Virtue Quotes - page 4
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Augustine of Hippo
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl Marx
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
Abraham Lincoln
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
Balancing the budget is like protecting your virtue, you have to learn how to say no.
Ronald Reagan
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
Horace
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
Edward Dahlberg
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Henry David Thoreau
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Cicero
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Alexander Pope
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
Robert Rauschenberg
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
Edmund Burke
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Lionel Trilling
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
G. K. Chesterton
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
Samuel Johnson
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Samuel Johnson
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