Thomas Browne Quotes About Virtue
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Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.
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I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
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There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.
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Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
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The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
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They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
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