VIRTUE QUOTES V

quotations about virtue

There is nothing we abhor so much as to have to be virtuous in private.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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When we let our virtue shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

JOE EVERETT

"Creating men of virtue", The Observer, April 20, 2017


The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

AESOP

"The Thieves and the Cock", Aesop's Fables

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Virtue alone has majesty in death.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

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Virtue seeks the greatest distance from vice.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

REBECCA WEST

The Harsh Voice

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Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

JOHN DRYDEN

Imitation of Horace

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There is no road or ready way to virtue.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

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Virtue is also power. As we faithfully live the gospel, we will have power to be virtuous in every thought, feeling and action. Our minds become more receptive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and the Light of Christ. We embody Christ not only in what we say and do, but in who we are.

ROBERT D. HALES

"Becoming a Disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ", Deseret News, April 1, 2016


Overt and apparent virtues, bring forth praise; but there be secret and hidden virtues, that bring forth fortune; certain deliveries of a man's self, which have no name.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Fortune", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.

ANDRE GIDE

Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

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To be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. If thou hast not conquer'd thyself in that which is thy own particular weakness, thou hast no title to virtue, tho' thou art free of other men's.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

JOHN STEINBECK

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

JOHN MILTON

Comus

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The happy life was related to virtue, and virtue itself was not to be seen merely as an individualistic good but something which must be seen as a social good.

HENRY KARLSON

"Virtue is Social", Patheos, April 5, 2017


Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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It matters not from what stock we are descended so long as we have virtue; for that alone is true Nobility.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Vicar of Wakefield

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