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VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

Virtue, Certain, Certainty

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.230, 谷月社

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

Ambrose Bierce

Life, Virtue, Modern

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Allison Pearson

Men, Virtue, Century

"Irrational. Contradictory. Mad" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

Allen W. Wood

Feelings, Moral, Virtue

Source: www.3ammagazine.com

True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.

Allan Lokos

Compassion, Virtue, Grounded

Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.109, Penguin

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shapes, Deeds, Virtue

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.299, Broadview Press

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Alexander Pope

Vices, Dignity, Virtue

Alexander Pope (1808). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.339

That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

Alexander Pope

Knowledge, Bliss, Virtue

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.155

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Alexander Pope

Friendship, Virtue

"The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope".

Virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

Virtue

Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.147

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

Alexander Pope

People, Kind, Virtue

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

Alexander Hamilton

People, Safe, Virtue

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

Aldo Leopold

Government, Virtue, Conservation

Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold (1983). “Building "The Land Ethic": a history of Aldo Leopold's most important essay”

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

Albert Camus

Would Be, Virtue, Granted

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”