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Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.”

Wise Teaching Virtuous

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

“Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.”

People Wells Consciousness Progress Awareness Circles Virtuous Possible Change

Author:William J. Clinton

“The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.”

Men Way Needs Action Greater Wise He Man Glory Ease Virtuous

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough.”

Enough Sin Accepted Efficient Virtuous Efficiency Compulsion

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.”

Men Littles Pay Heard Citizens Quiet Taxes Clean Forgotten Debt Circles Virtuous Forgetfulness

Book:The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

“As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.”

Grows Talking Virtue Mouths Honey Virtuous

Author:Ivan Panin

“As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.”

Whole Existence Tree Son Sweet Birth Forests Virtuous

Author:Chanakya

“Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.”

Said Spirit Simple Talking Doubt Too Much Worst Holy Speech Perfection Faults Tongue Gentle Holy Spirit Attachment Virtuous Defects Charitable Amiable Talking Too Much

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.”

Thinking Men Differences Mistake Stronger Foolish Virtuous Moderates Extremist Great Mistakes Better Man

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.”

Virtue Virtuous Offended

Author:Richard Steele

“Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.”

Giving Deeds Virtuous Alms

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.”

I Can Reason Happiness Lying Desire Found Practice Function Virtuous

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.”

May Self Belief Force Interest Capitalism Destroyed Expenses Affected Capitalist Cynicism Virtuous Self Interest

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.”

Mean Turns Ability Effects Climate Species Climate Change Get Up Heat Virtuous Carbon Ecosystems Delayed Heating

Author:Bill Gates

“I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.”

People Feels Mean Sometimes Done Action Wish Natural Moral Principles Virtue Trouble Havens Prove Shame Like Me Wicked Frank Virtuous Remorse Particles Humbug Owning It

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.”

Believe Persons Character Fear Loses Doubt Effects Products Despair Former Latter Virtuous Vicious Incline Relying On God

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Il n'y a que deux sortes d'hommes: les uns justes, qui se croient pe cheurs; les autres pe cheurs, qui se croient justes. There are only two types of people: the virtuous who believe themselves to be sinners and the sinners who believe themselves to be virtuous.”

People Believe Two Type Sinner Virtuous

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.”

People World Love Ideas Self Feelings Individual Struggle Dangerous Duty Affection Delusion Virtuous Pretense Self Delusion

Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.”

Ifs Children Reason Faces Desire Father Parent Behinds Example Direct Vices Thee Virtuous Behaviour Ripe Rebuke

Author:Francis Quarles

“A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.”

Obedience Beast Virtuous Pharisees

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.”

Friendship Love Is Casts Virtuous One Love Cast Away

Book:The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes

Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes

“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”

Enough Achievement Ordinary Strive Folly Virtuous Ordinary Life

Author:Alain de Botton

“I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.”

People Thinking Humans Eye Faces Evil My Own Pure Capacity Noble Virtuous Face To Face Frailty Human Frailties Pure Evil

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.”

I Can Bed Thank God Virtuous Death Bed Virtuous Woman

Author:Belle Boyd

“It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.”

Desire Habit Pure Virtuous Cultivation

Book:On Christian Doctrine

Source: On Christian Doctrine

“Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.”

“My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.”

Men Giving Lying Religious Comfort Dear Good Man Bless Virtuous Last Words God Bless God Bless You

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman

“Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.”

Behavior Unhappiness Virtuous

Author:Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

“For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.”

Men Hands Liberty Fit Edges Virtuous Mischief

Book:The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

“If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?”

Ifs Should Love Is Lovers Virtuous

Author:John Lyly

“Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.”