The phrase "set of virtues" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you are referring to a group of qualities or characteristics that are generally considered to be desirable or admirable. For example: "Compassion, integrity, and respect for others are essential parts of the set of virtues that every educator should strive to exemplify in their classrooms."
Pity the Democrats, stuck with the wrong set of virtues.
And yet, over time, they've settled on their own set of virtues: rigor, elegance, simplicity, inventiveness, gentleness, and wit.
At the same time, their Indianness was extracted as a set of virtues: honor, stoicism, dignity, freedom.
It's an unusual position — unlike Vendler, most poetry critics are poets themselves — and it comes with its own curious set of virtues and vices.
It embodies a set of virtues—"learning and scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain"—which, he said, underpins Asia's economic success.
The movie turns Spielberg, in the persona of Halliday, into the ultimate cool dad, converting Wade's heroism into a conjoined set of virtues centered on filial piety (piety toward a substitute father) and pop devotion.
In place of Christianity's seven virtues, Anrep offered his own set of Modern Virtues, including "Humour" and "Open Mind"; the allegorical figures are again portraits of his contemporaries, including Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell and T. S. Eliot.
Free apps, meanwhile, proliferate, adding to their basic consumer information a varied set of technological virtues and flaws.
But the rise of the Tea party has put one set of Texas virtues under threat, in defence of what they consider to be others.
Havel reminds us often that a democratic legal order must be coupled always with a robust moral order, an ever-evolving set of civic virtues that tie the individual to his community.
What makes us deem this good rather than bad style is that they telegraph a set of contradictory virtues: femininity, seriousness, playfulness, idiosyncrasy, glamour, ease and a lack of vanity or seeming effort that is complemented by natural beauty.
