Virtue
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Perfect is the virtue which is according to the Mean! Rare have they long been among the people, who could practice it!
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place when all the stars are rotating about it.
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
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