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• Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

  Indira Gandhi

  Forgiveness, History, Bravery

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• Blushing is the color of virtue.

  Diogenes

  Love, Life, Dream

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• The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

  William Cowper

  Titles, Fame, Good Health

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.119

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• It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Government, People, Liberty

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.70

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• Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

  George Washington

  Doe, Noble, Rewards

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.1

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• Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains,
  'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains:
  And grant the bad what happiness they would,
  One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

  Alexander Pope

  Vices, Want, Advantage

  Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.51

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• Virtue alone is sweet society,
  It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
  And opens you a welcome in them all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Heart, Keys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.309, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Virtue may choose the high or low degree,
  'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me;
  Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king,
  She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Light, Degrees

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...”, p.108

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• O let us still the secret joy partake,
  To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

  Alexander Pope

  Joy, Secret, Sake

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.131

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• Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

  John Milton

  Break Through, Shining, Temptation

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

  John Milton

  Growth, Vicious, Virtuous

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
  [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus,
  Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

  Horace

  Hate, Sight, Safe

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• Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

  Edmund Burke

  Long, People, Political

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 71

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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.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Delight, Cry

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.497

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• There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Short Life, Men, Hair

  Letter to John Adams, 28 Oct. 1813

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• Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

  John Milton

  Chimes, Stoops, Ifs

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1017-22.

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• Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

  Ben Jonson

  Mind, Crowns, Enough

  The Underwood,'An Ode to Himself' (published 1640).

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• Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Care, Choosing Happiness

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

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• He who dies for virtue does not perish.

  Plautus

  Doe, Dies

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1893). “Comedies of T. Maccius Plautus: (Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi)”

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• The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Law, Public Opinion

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.475

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• Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Path, Ends, Graves

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.756, Delphi Classics

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• Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

  George Washington

  Struggle, Men, Suffering

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.91

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• Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mean, Men, Savages

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters: 1761-1792”

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• We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Speak

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