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“No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.”

Ifs Nations Growth Loses Loss Virtue Deserve Regard Dues Luxury Ease Permit Twisted Indulgence Heartless Absorbing Sentimentality Effortless Commercialism

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.”

Love Self Loss Virtue Saws Sacrifice Creation Succeed Luck Rewards Generosity Stirring Self Sacrifice

Book:Harlot's Ghost: A Novel

Source: Harlot's Ghost: A Novel

“There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.”

Wealth Loss Forget Virtue Greater Forget It

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.”

Ifs Men Humans Real Enough Feelings Problem Moving Political Loss Views Virtue Economic Ought Modest Masculinity Confusing Usefulness Had Enough Tackling Maleness

Author:Ellen Willis

“If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.”

Ifs Stills Hours Loss History Virtue Destruction West Empires Honour Rome Survived Barbarians Roman Empire Conqueror

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

Ifs Way Suffering Loss Virtue Failing Youth Findings Deny Criminals Vehement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

“Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.”

Choices Loss Virtue Ambition Gains Soldier

Book:Plays of William Shakespeare

Source: Plays of William Shakespeare

“In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that.”

People Needs Firsts Real States Community Loss United United States Virtue Taken Distance Practicals Invisible Satisfied Curse Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel Transactions

Author:Bill McKibben

“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins