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Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge

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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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. – Aristotle

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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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We bow with resignation beneath the tempestuous storms of life; but a daily vexation, like a moth eating a garment, consumes our virtue. – Anonymous, Aphorisms; or, A Glance at Human Nature, in Original Maxims, 1820

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