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

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    Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

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    Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

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    Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

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    Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

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    Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

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    Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

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    Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

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    Love's like virtue, its own reward.

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    Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

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    Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

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    Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

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    Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

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    Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

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    Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

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    men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

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    Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

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    Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

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    [M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

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    Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

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    Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.

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    Modesty is not one of my virtues.

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    Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

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    Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

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    Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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    Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

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    Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

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    monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

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    Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

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    Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

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    My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

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    Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

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    Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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    Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

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    My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

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    My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And, that's sort of a virtue and a wonderful thing to be able to experience. It's so much less work.

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    More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.

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    My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

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    My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

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    My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

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    My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

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    My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.

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    Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

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    No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

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    Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

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    Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

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    New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

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    Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

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    Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

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    Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.