Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Virtue
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Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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