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A Republic founded on what they call the Virtues; on what we call the Decencies and Respectabilities: this they will have, and nothing but this.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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These latter angels have the name of Virtues, because they impart to the general causes the necessary energy to preserve them from failure in the accomplishment of their numerous operations.
The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982
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Virtues: It was a clandestine affair for designer Ashish, Viral and Vikrant of the six year old label Virtues who kept their 28 pairs of hand made shoes under wraps until the show.
Top Headlines 2009
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Virtues (the Latin word 'virtus', means 'moral excellence') concerns the kinds of ethics and morals an individual or community finds desirable and appropriate.
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If nothing else, try Deirdre McCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues, which is a much more difficult read, but worth the effort.
I am Not as Turned On, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The statues should properly be known as the Virtues and Vices, for some of them represent such moral qualities as Vigilance,
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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The holy water basin supported by figures of the Virtues is a much-injured work by Giovanni
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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Courage and Patience, and many more besides; and her daughters are Pity with her sad eyes, and Gentleness with her silvery voice, and Mercy whose sweet face makes sunshine in the shade of death, and Humility all unconscious of her loveliness; and linked hand in hand with these, all the radiant band of sisters that men call Virtues and Graces.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Virtues, which is near the Alcazar, and there they kept their vigil, and said prayer and performed masses, as was meet for so honourable a man.
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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Actions, and makes them in reality, what the Fathers with a witty kind of Zeal have termed the Virtues of the Heathen World, so many _shining
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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