Walter Scott Quotes About Virtue
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Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
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Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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