Virtue Quotes (page 34)

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• people
• stuff
• justly

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. John Steinbeck

• manly
• greatness
• people

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man. Bertrand Russell

• fall
• sin
• falling

Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall. William Shakespeare

• patience
• minority
• minors

Patience? A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce

• true
• manly
• mans

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. C. S. Lewis

• virtues
• peacemaker

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if. William Shakespeare

• parents
• gratitude
• parenting

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Marcus Tullius Cicero

• beauty
• true
• good

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies. Edward Abbey

• winter
• feeling
• gold

You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, And kept a pack of fools around you To mix good and evil, to blur the line, Though everyone bowed down before you, Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way, Striking gold medals in your honor, Glad to have survived another day, Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date. And you’d have done better with a winter dawn, A rope, and a... Czeslaw Milosz

• mother child
• words
• friends

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue! Friedrich Nietzsche

• evening
• choose
• mistake

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich. George Orwell

• eyes
• black
• evil

black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue Euripides

• him
• suits
• lack

Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin. Thomas Hardy

• courage
• mean
• meanness

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning. Winston Churchill

• manly
• rich
• achievement

A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred. George Washington