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    I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

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    I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

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    I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

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    I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

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    I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

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    Idleness breeds our better virtues.

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    I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

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    I do think vulnerability is a virtue.

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    I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

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    I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

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    If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

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    I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protection which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor.

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    If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

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    I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

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    If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

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    If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

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    If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

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    If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

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    If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

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    If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

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    If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

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    If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

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    If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

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    If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

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    If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

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    I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

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    If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

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    If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.

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    If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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    If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

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    If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

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    If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

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    If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

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    If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

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    If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.

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    If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

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    If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

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    If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

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    If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

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    If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

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    If you live with alertness, you live rightly. If you live in imitation, you live wrongly. To me there is only one sin: And that is not to be yourself. And to me there is only one virtue: And that is to know yourself.

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    If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

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    Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

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    If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

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    I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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    I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

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    I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

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    I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

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    I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

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    I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.