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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
Source: Table-Talk (1824) -
Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
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Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Source: Measure for measure (1604) -
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / and vice sometimes by action dignified.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
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Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
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