"There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works."
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"The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue."
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"Tart, cathartic virtue."
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"In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended."
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"[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it."
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"Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!"
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"Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us."
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"History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times."
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"Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man."
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"He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving."
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"If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of."
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"My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses."
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"Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality."
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"Calamity is virtue's opportunity."
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"The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love."
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"Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ."
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"Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it."
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"The sturdiest virtue seems fragile."
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"The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims."
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"When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals."
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