Virtue

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• Quote 3108

  A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

  by: Henry James

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• Quote 3054

  You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

  by: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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• Quote 3028

  When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad ones

  by: John Pierpont Morgan

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• Quote 2959

  Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead

  by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Quote 2909

  To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2907

  Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2884

  Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2878

  Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2855

  Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2805

  The vices of some men are magnificent

  by: Charles Lamb

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• Quote 2777

  Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis

  by: Karl Kraus

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• Quote 2772

  The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women

  by: Karl Kraus

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• Quote 2691

  The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays

  by: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Quote 2665

  Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

  by: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Quote 2639

  And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray

  by: John Keble

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• Quote 2621

  My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me

  by: Franz Kafka

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• Quote 2619

  Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

  by: Franz Kafka

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• Quote 2549

  Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem

  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2512

  The more refined one is, the more unhappy

  by: Anton Chekhov

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• Quote 2487

  The home is the chief school of human virtues

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2478

  It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2443

  Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteem

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2439

  No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2396

  The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul

  by: Johannes Calvin

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• Quote 2336

  Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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