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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Errors, Virtue, Avoided

Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

William Shenstone

Essence, Bears, Virtue

William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.42

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

William Shakespeare

Virtue, Calumny, Scapes

William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.63, Classic Books Company

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

William Shakespeare

Fall, Virtue, Lost

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1486, Oxford University Press

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

William Penn

Art, Links, Virtue

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.158

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

Role Models, Facts, Virtue

William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.38, Harvard University Press

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

William Hazlitt

Speak, Virtue, Ill

'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Cant and Hypocrisy'

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

Race, Ridiculous, Virtue

William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.486

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

William Gilmore Simms

Success, Men, Virtue

William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.24

Virtue alone is true nobility.

William Gifford

Virtue, Nobility

Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus”, p.72

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

William Fleming

Ancient, Virtue, Ethical

William Fleming (1858). “Vocabulary of Philosophy Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical by William Fleming”, p.410

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

William Faulkner

Virtue, Idleness

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

William Cowper

Titles, Virtue, Fame

William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.119

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

William Cowper

Flower, Earth, Virtue

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Will Durant

Virtue, Oversight, Packages

Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.814, Simon and Schuster

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Walter Scott

Courage, Virtue

John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott (1853). “Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart”, p.230

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Walter Savage Landor

Women, Foundation, Virtue

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Voltaire

Happy Times, History, Virtue

Voltaire, John Morley, William F. Fleming, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1904). “The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history”

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

Vincent de Paul

Practice, Imperfect, Virtue

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

Torquato Tasso

Sleep, Ease, Virtue

Torquato Tasso (1749). “Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered: Or Godfrey of Bulloign: An Heroic Poem”, p.37

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

Tony Dungy

Virtue, Stubbornness, Ifs

Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker (2014). “Building Your Team”, p.74, NavPress

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

Tiger Woods

Matter, Privacy, Virtue

Tiger Woods' Car Crash Statement, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2009.

Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.

Thomas Yellowtail

Humility, Realizing, Virtue

Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.170, University of Oklahoma Press

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

Thomas Southerne

Opportunity, Affliction, Virtue

Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.295