Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Character, Luck, Crow

• Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Integrity, Negative, Ethics

• There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Money, Children, Memories

• It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Vices, Necks, Virtue

• Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Feelings, Arrogance, Democracy

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