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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
 If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries 
aloud
 Through all her works) read more 
 If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries 
aloud
 Through all her works) he must delight in virtue. 
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will read more
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
 Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they 
are incensed or crushed.  
 Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they 
are incensed or crushed. 
 It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be 
anxious to crush the read more 
 It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be 
anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
 [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, 
velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.] 
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast read more
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary