He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Copy Share Image
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. — Sallust Copy Share Image
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. — David Hume Copy Share Image
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
“A mother's job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God's Words, and principles into her kids.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever… — Paul Elmer More Copy Share Image
“Faith hath an incarnating virtue, as they say of some strengthening meat; it feeds upon the promise, and that ‘is perfect, converting’—or… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind,… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of… — Emil Ludwig Copy Share Image
“In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
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