Here is a link to An Old Fashioned Education, a site that lists various texts found online. Here is their page on the subject of Character, Morality, and Etiquette . There is a separate list for boys and girls, as well as text that are more general.
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category: general resources
1. TEMPERANCE.
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE.
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER.
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION.
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY.
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY.
Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE.
Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION.
Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS.
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
11. TRANQUILLITY.
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY.
Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY.
Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
From the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Ch 8 . Scroll about halfway down the page to see the list of virtues. The remainder of the chapter deals with Franklin’s “how-to” method of increasing in the virtues he had listed, and is an interesting read.
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Here are some links to lesson plans from a character education website. The lesson plans are based in part on a video series, but some of it seems usable without watching that first. They list plans by character trait (i.e. trustworthiness, responsibility, kindness) I believe they are secular…
Lesson Plans for Middle School
And a link for lesson plans/questions on Character Building in Sports
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categories: secular, general resources
Here is a link to an entire listing of articles on virtues in general as well as specific virtues (these are from a Catholic perspective).
Someday I hope to go through these to comment on them. Someday… 
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Yet another article by Doug McManaman! 
The typical hedonist today does not aspire to anything larger and higher, but settles for “feeling good”. Such a life does not require fortitude.
For the rest of the article, go here: The Virtue of Fortitude
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category: fortitude
Temperance is the first virtue that perfects man’s ability to act well with one’s self from within one’s self.
For it brings order to the concupiscible appetite, and thus to the emotions of love, hate, sensible satisfaction, desire, aversion and sorrow as they bear upon a pleasant good.
Temperance is primarily about desires for the greatest pleasures…
For the rest of the article, click here: The Virtue of Temperance by Doug McManaman
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The seven deadly sins have seven corresponding virtues, which are specific opposites to the Seven Deadly Sins:
Humility against pride,
Kindness against envy,
Abstinence against gluttony,
Chastity against lust,
Patience against anger,
Liberality against greed, and
Diligence against sloth.
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categories: general, copywork and memorization
Here is an online article on the virtue of justice. It starts:
Justice is the virtue that perfects the will. It is defined as the constant and perpetual will to render each person his due.
There are three different kinds of justice that correspond to the three basic relations that form the structure of life within society. Corresponding to each relation is a certain type of debt. First, there is a relation of one individual to another, and it is commutative justice that bears upon this relation. Secondly, there is a relation between the individual person and the social whole. It is general justice, or legal justice, that bears upon this particular relation. Thirdly, the social whole is related to the individual person and is the subject of a kind of debt. Distributive justice orders this relation. We will treat each one individually…
To read the rest go here: The Virtue of Justice
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category: justice
For a comprehensive search on the word “mercy” or any other word, go to Douay-Rheims Bible Online and click on “search” on the top righthand side. Non-Catholics can use Blue Letter Bible and use the tools on their first page – this is a great resource, I wish there were as good a Catholic version!
The word MERCY is used over 300 times in the Old Testament alone, so here is only a small sampling! (The Psalms, Proverbs, Wisdom, and Ecclesiasticus/Sirach have many mentions of “mercy”.)
Exodus 15:13 - In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation.
Exodus 20:5-6 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exodus 33:19 He answered: I will shew thee all good, and I will proclaim in the name of the Lord before thee: and I will have mercy on whom I will, and I will be merciful to whom it shall please me.
Numbers 22-27 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Say to Aaron and his sons: Thus shall you bless the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: The Lord bless thee, and keep thee. The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee. The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace. And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
Deut 7:9-10 And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations: And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.
2Chron 20:9 For if you turn again to the Lord: your brethren, and children shall find mercy before their masters, that have led them away captive, and they shall return into this land: for the Lord your God is merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
Psalms 4:2 When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.
Psalms 6:3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
Psalms 12:6 But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea I will sing to the name of the Lord the most high
Psalm 32:5 He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
Psalm 84:8 Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation.
All of Psalm 118 (117 in Douay-Rheims)
All of Psalm 136 (135 in Douay-Rheims)
Prov 3:3 Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart
Prov 14:21 He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth: but he that sheweth mercy to the poor, shall be blessed. He that believeth in the Lord, loveth mercy.
Prov 21:21 He that followeth justice and mercy, shall find life, justice, and glory
Isaiah 49:
13 Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy on his poor ones.
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categories: Bible, mercy, copywork and memorization
The Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy illustrate the ways to show charity toward others.
The Corporal Works of Mercy
The Spiritual Works of Mercy
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categories: charity, mercy, copywork and memorization
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