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Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Taken, Decision, Virtue

John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “Name-Dropping: From FDR On”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

John Gay

Ignorance, Virtue, Eternity

John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.78

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

John Dryden

Humility, Virtue, Prime

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.185

Virtue is her own reward.

John Dryden

Rewards, Virtue

"Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr". Tragedy by John Dryden (Act III, Scene 1), 1670.

Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

John Donne

Names, Virtue, Knows

John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.481

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

John Calvin

Vices, Sometimes, Virtue

John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

John Adams

Modesty, Virtue, Thrive

John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor, Gregg L. Lint (1989). “Papers of John Adams”

Virtue is not always amiable.

John Adams

Virtue, Humankind, Amiable

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of”, p.188

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Temptation, Virtue, Absence

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Agents, Action, Virtue

The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts.

Joan Acocella

Pieces, Virtue

The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must be something about such creatures (or about such situations, or about both) in virtue of which it does so.

Jerry Fodor

Doe, Kind, Virtue

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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Jeremy Taylor

Rewards, Ingredients, Virtue

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

Jean Racine

Degrees, Virtue, Crime

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

Jean Paul

Self, Virtue, Stills

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

Jean de la Bruyere

Faults, Virtue, Easier

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Virtue, Easy, Virtuous

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Cost, God Love, Virtue

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Vices, Income, Virtue

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

James Russell Lowell

Gold, Wealth, Virtue

James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

James Q. Wilson

Running, Long, Virtue

James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.23, American Enterprise Institute

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

James Mackintosh

Mind, Regulation, Virtue

Sir James Mackintosh (1836). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.411

I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.

James E. Faust

Girl, Virtue, Individual

"A Message to My Granddaughters". James E. Faust's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. February 12, 1985.