Virtues

Examples

• But this, in my opinion, is not a sufficient reason for excluding them from the catalogue of virtues. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This is not the case with the natural virtues. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Two virtues remain; temperance and justice. Plato. The Republic.
• Whatever happened, he knew, she would always be loyal, gallant and unresentful; and that pledged him to the practice of the same virtues. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• To call them virtues in their isolation is like taking the skeleton for the living body. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Perhaps it will appear afterwards, that our sense of some virtues is artificial, and that of others natural. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• With all these virtues, one penny a square! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describing his virtues, his magnificence, his talents, and his good actions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The man never trod ground whose virtues and services would have sustained him in that place that day, against such denunciation. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• All the moral and Christian virtues bound in black Morocco, complete! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And is not a similar method to be pursued about the virtues, which are also four in number? Plato. The Republic.
• All the virtues as well as truth, who is the leader of them, took up their abode in his soul. Plato. The Republic.
• Ethics), 'Whether the virtues are one or many? Plato. The Republic.
• You will remember, that when we spoke of the virtues mention was made of a longer road, which you were satisfied to leave unexplored. Plato. The Republic.
• Which is an obvious injustice to the memory of King Lud, and a dishonest exaltation of the virtues of King Cole. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Her small virtues were so sweet that she would have been quite angelic if a few small naughtinesses had not kept her delightfully human. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We may presume the like with regard to all the other virtues, which have a like tendency to the public good. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But she is such an extraordinarily dear girl herself, that it's possible she may have imparted something of those virtues to me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I will not trust thee, Templar, said Rebecca; thou hast taught me better how to estimate the virtues of thine Order. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Sensible of my deficiencies, I have surrounded myself with moral influences expressly meant to promote the formation of the domestic virtues. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Let us consider some of the virtues singly. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He must have all Edward's virtues, and his person and manners must ornament his goodness with every possible charm. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The beautiful Lady Alice, replied Clayton, of whose many virtues and remarkable personal charms I often have heard my mother and father speak. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Her sorrows were known to man; her virtues to God. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• What, he said, is there a knowledge still higher than this--higher than justice and the other virtues? Plato. The Republic.

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