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By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

Robert Vaughn

Virtue

Being

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

Eugene Sue

Virtue

Poverty

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Life

Virtue

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Virtue

Debate