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• Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

  Mark Twain

  Eccentric, Virtue

  A Curious Dream (1872) "Mental Photographs"

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• Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Courage, Bravery, Heroic

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• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Men, Feelings

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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• There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Greatness, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1811). “The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin”, p.155

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• Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

  Confucius

  Revenge, Blessing, Boredom

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• Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Drinking, Food

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

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• The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

  Confucius

  Wise, Fear, Anxiety

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• Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

  Edmund Burke

  Society, Liberty, Appetite

  Edmund Burke (1791). “A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs”, p.69

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• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  C. S. Lewis

  Courage, Army, Bravery

  In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

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• The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

  Ron Paul

  People, Moral, Justified

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

  Frederick Douglass

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  Speech on the twenty-third anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1885

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• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, People, Needs

  Letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud, April 17, 1787.

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• Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Giving, Soul

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Character, Fire, Voice

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• People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

  Martin Luther

  Education, People, Principles

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• It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

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• The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Strong, Destiny

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, Virtue

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Men, Doe

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1857). “Cicero's Three Books of Offices: Or Moral Duties; Also His Cato Major ... Laelius ... Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Tr., with Notes ...”, p.311

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• If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Virtue, Vicious, Ifs

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• Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

  Isadora Duncan

  One Direction, People, Purpose

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Men, Purpose

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• Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

  Joseph Addison

  Sweet, Men, Slumber

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.172

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