Josh Billings Quotes About Virtue
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It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
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It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
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...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
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Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.
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Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
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If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
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We should make virtue our master, not our servant.
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Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
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Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.
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