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Letter "V" » Virtue
«If you are truly persevering in virtue, what is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has no milk will not be purchased, even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell.»
Author: Siddha Nagarjuna
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Virtue
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bell, haughty, persevering, purchased, sounding
«If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest»
Author: Simonides
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Death and dying,
Fortune,
Honor,
Nobility,
Virtue
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blest, Crown of Glory, Greece
«In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.»
«Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.»
«It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
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Virtue
| Keywords:
disaster, precipitate, precipitated, precipitates, precipitating
«In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self»
«If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.»
«It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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Virtue
| Keywords:
distinguished, satirize, satirized, vices
«In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned do»
«If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons»
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