Jonathan Swift Quotes About Virtue
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Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
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The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
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Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
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And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies.
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The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.
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