Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
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