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cardinal virtues

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cardinal virtues
pl n
(Philosophy) the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
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Vesey is an excellent person, who possesses all the cardinal virtues, and counts for nothing; and Mr.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
He himself undertook his daughter's education, and to develop these two cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was occupied.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Here is a meek, righteous, thoroughgoing Christian, who, having mastered all these qualities, so difficult of attainment; who, having dropped a pinch of salt on the tails of all the cardinal virtues, and caught them every one; makes light of their possession, and pants for more morality.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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