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Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

All great virtues become great men.

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:23, 2

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Virtue is the only true nobility.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.