Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides
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Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
Ann Landers
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Sadly, the Left is no longer liberal at all, for it has traded in individualism for collectivism, thus placing us into an oppression Olympics where victimhood is a virtue. This post-modernism - this cultural Marxism or whatever you want to call it - can only destroy; it cannot create.
Dave Rubin
YouCreateWantOppressionVirtue
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
John Wycliffe
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce
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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Silius Italicus
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
William Cullen Bryant
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What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I've realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you're not careful.
Ronnie Dunn
PeopleFeedbackYouReactVirtue
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.
Mary Shelley
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I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
Terry Eagleton
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We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.
Michael Leunig
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The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.
Nick Harkaway
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Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
Joyce Meyer
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
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The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
George A. Smith
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This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.
Dinesh D'Souza
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
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Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.
Dayananda Saraswati
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon
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