Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes About Virtue
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The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.
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Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
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There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
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Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
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One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
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