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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.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

Josh Billings

Horse, Virtue, Discourse

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

Josh Billings

Pay, Virtue, Easier

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

Josh Billings

Men, Fit, Virtue

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Josh Billings

Passion, Doe, Virtue

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

Joseph Chenier

Practice, Virtue, Reason

Virtue which shuns, the day.

Joseph Addison

Modesty, Virtue

Joseph Addison (1733). “Cato: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants”, p.45

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

Joseph Addison

Men, Enemy, Virtue

Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.441

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

Joseph Addison

Beautiful, Death, Virtue

Joseph Addison, James WILD (Dramatist.) (1779). “Cato; a tragedy ... As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Regulated from the prompt-book ... by Mr. Wild. (Bell's edition.).”, p.57

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

Jose Maria Peman

Action, Virtue

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

Jonathan V. Last

Virtue, Virtuous

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

Jonathan V. Last

Firsts, Virtue

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

Jonathan Swift

Mind, Virtue, Mankind

Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.446

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

John Vanbrugh

Love, Rewards, Virtue

Sir John Vanbrugh (1759). “The life of Sir J. Vanbrugh The relapse; or, Virtue in danger. The provok'd wife, with a new scene. Æsop, in two parts. The false friend”, p.137

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

John Vanbrugh

Moving, Virtue, Stills

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

John Stuart Mill

Together, Kind, Virtue

John Stuart Mill (2012). “The Subjection of Women”, p.43, Courier Corporation

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

John Ruskin

Design, Vices, Virtue

John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.102

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

John Ruskin

Goddess, Virtue, Getting Along

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

John Ridley

America, Firsts, Virtue

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

John Perry Barlow

Winning, Adoption, Virtue

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

John Milton

Faith, Helping, Virtue

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.65

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

John Milton

Would Be, Virtue, Conscience

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.309

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

John Milton

Passion, Ingredients, Virtue

1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

John Milton

War, Conquer, Virtue

John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.255