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Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. – Robert S. Lynd

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Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. – Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859

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Virtue is insufficient temptation. – George Bernard Shaw

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