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Our whole effort should be toward securing a combination of the strong qualities with those qualities which we term virtues.
Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904 1904
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But apart from dominating its core ad-search business, Google has other long-term virtues.
If You Doubt Google, 2008
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I now learnt they were often admitted into the nunnery, and allowed to indulge in the greatest crimes, which they and others called virtues.
Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Maria Monk 1832
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Let us cherish their memory, and weep beside their tomb, and recall their virtues.
Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76. 1823-1886 1877
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These things make but a poor show by the side of some of the tawdry splendours of what the vulgar world calls virtues.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868
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I should like sometimes to thank Heaven for saving me from some kinds of transgression, and even for granting me some qualities that if I dared I should be disposed to call virtues.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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I should like sometimes to thank Heaven for saving me from some kinds of transgression, and even for granting me some qualities that if I dared I should be disposed to call virtues.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Please don't worry that I'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues.
Nivi 2009
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Please don't worry that I'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues.
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But please don't worry that I'm getting ready to preach to you about compassion or other-directedness or the so-called "virtues."
Revealing words ... Frank Wilson 2008
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