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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect (Virtue Quotes)
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person’s name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test (Virtue Quotes)
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie (Virtue Quotes)
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue (Virtue Quotes)
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right (Virtue Quotes)
For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o’er life’s sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things th (Virtue Quotes)
A man hasn’t got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined (Virtue Quotes)
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance (Virtue Quotes)
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful (Virtue Quotes)
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values (Virtue Quotes)
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots (Virtue Quotes)
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment (Virtue Quotes)
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds... Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel (Virtue Quotes)
It isn’t right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue (Virtue Quotes)
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid (Virtue Quotes)
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases (Virtue Quotes)
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice (Virtue Quotes)
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away (Virtue Quotes)
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue (Virtue Quotes)
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer (Virtue Quotes)
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking (Virtue Quotes)
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being (Virtue Quotes)
Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels (Virtue Quotes)
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue (Virtue Quotes)
The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far (Virtue Quotes)
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it (Virtue Quotes)
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women (Virtue Quotes)
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion (Virtue Quotes)
As to virtue... it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality (Virtue Quotes)