I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad,"… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
By virtue of my job, I'm traveling. You get to spend very little time with your family. We hardly get to meet… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Even as the needle that directs the hour, (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power Of hidden Nature, points upon the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Bring things to life and nurture them, But have no thoughts of possession. Act without relying on anything; Bring things along, but… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in… — Louis XVI of France Copy Share Image
And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are… — Moliere Copy Share Image
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life,… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut Copy Share Image
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