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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship. by Alexander Pope

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Alexander Pope
virtue friendship
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. by Alexander Pope

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Alexander Pope
virtue vices sometimes
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, by Alexander Pope

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains,

Alexander Pope
virtue vices want
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal,... by Alexander Pope

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

Alexander Pope
virtue skills want
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which i... by Alexander Pope

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

Alexander Pope
virtue kind people

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

Alexander the Great
virtue army lying

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Alexis Carrel
virtue quality personality
Virtue must shape itself in deed. by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
virtue shapes deeds

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead
virtue ambition wisdom
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are c... by Algernon Sidney

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Algernon Sidney
virtue liberty people
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not te... by Alister E. McGrath

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

Alister E. McGrath
virtue poet teaching
True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion. by Allan Lokos

True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.

Allan Lokos
grounded virtue compassion
Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable part... by Allen W. Wood

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

Allen W. Wood
moral virtue feelings

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Allison Pearson
virtue century men
Kindness is virtue itself. by Alphonse de Lamartine

Kindness is virtue itself.

Alphonse de Lamartine
virtue kindness
Void of freedom, what would virtue be? by Alphonse de Lamartine

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Alphonse de Lamartine
void virtue freedom
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our... by Alphonse de Lamartine

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Alphonse de Lamartine
sovereign virtue greatness
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others... by Alphonse Karr

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Alphonse Karr
virtue people thinking
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. by Ambrose Bierce

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce
virtue sarcastic patience

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Ambrose Bierce
virtue hypocrite doe
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