Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them. — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious. — John Milton Copy Share Image
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
“Natural law is superior as it allows for the pursuit of virtue genuinely initiated from within and themselves.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble,… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some… — Charles Bates Copy Share Image
“Marriage is the preserver of the human race. Without it, the purposes of God would be frustrated; virtue would be destroyed to… — Joseph F. Smith Copy Share Image
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the… — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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