"For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone."
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"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background."
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"A virtue which is divine is humility."
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"I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril."
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"[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous."
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"I think no virtue goes with size."
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"The order of things consents to virtue."
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"There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep."
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"The virtues of society are the vices of the saints."
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"For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached."
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"There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified."
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"The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue."
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"The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him."
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"All the devils respect virtue."
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"The highest virtue is always against the law."
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"Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue."
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"God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking."
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". . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . ."
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"The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants."
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"Virtue is too often merely local."
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