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Letter "V" » Virtue

«Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.»

Author: Anne Herbert | About: Beauty, Kindness, Practice, Senses, Virtue | Keywords: at random, random

«Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.»

Author: Gordon B. Hinckley (Clergyman) | About: Morality, Self-respect, Virtue

«Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.»

Author: St. Francis de Sales | About: Reputation, Virtue | Keywords: proportioned, rarely

«Persevere in virtue and diligence.»

Author: Titus Maccius Plautus | About: Diligence, Virtue | Keywords: diligence, persevere

«Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.»

Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | About: Adversity, Virtue | Keywords: adversity, discovers, prosperity, vice

«Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics»

Author: John Adams (President) | About: Virtue | Keywords: republics

«Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Vice, Virtue | Keywords: search, THY, vices, virtues

«People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.»

Author: Confucius | About: Virtue | Keywords: virtuous

«Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.»

Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | About: Achievement, Beauty, Glory, Humanity, Knowledge, Truth, Virtue | Keywords: abided, abide by, Abide With Me, abiding, glory, on paper, paper

«Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence»

Author: The Talmud | About: Virtue | Keywords: enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, fraction, fractions

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