Virtues

About Virtues

Virtues is the third full-length studio album by pop-punk band Amber Pacific, released on April 13, 2010. This was the band's only album on Victory Records and their only without vocalist Matt Young, who left the group in early 2008 to pursue a career in public education. "Three Words" is the lead single off the album, released on March 23, 2010. It was written by the band's new vocalist, Jesse Cottam. This is also the last album with original bassist Greg Strong, who left the band in 2011.

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"The Good Life" was previously released on Amber Pacific's self-titled EP, released in 2009, while "An Anthem for the Young at Heart" is currently streaming from the band's official MySpace.

Personnel

Jesse Cottam — lead vocals

Will Nutter — lead guitar, vocals, keyboards

Greg Strong — bass

Dango — drums

Davy Rispoli — guitar, backup vocals

Katie Freeze – string arrangements

Rachael Pearson – violin

Stephen Bryant – violin

Sue Jane Bryant – viola

Walter Gray – cello

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Notable quotes

“Virtue is the mistress of all things. Virtue is the master of all things.”
— John Adams, Journal entry (6 August 1796).
“To be able to practise five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue ... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”
— Confucius, Analects, fifth century B.C.
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.”
— David Starr Jordan, "Ideals of Stanford", quoted in The Land of Sunshine: A Southern California Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Los Angeles, June 1898), p. 11.
“We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion.”
— Letter to Demetrias by Pelagius as translated by B. Rees, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), pp. 206-210
“Unde clare intelligimus, quantum illi a vera virtutis aestimatione aberrant, qui pro virtute et optimis actionibus, tanquam pro summa servitute, summis praemiis a Deo decorari exspectant, quasi ipsa virtus Deique servitus non esset ipsa felicitas et summa libertas.”
— We may thus clearly understand, how far astray from a true estimate of virtue are those who expect to be decorated by God with high rewards for their virtue, and their best actions, as for having endured the direst slavery; as if virtue and the service of God were not in itself happiness and perfect freedom.
“What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.”
— Frederick William Robertson, p. 612.

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