There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters;… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
On the information technology side, health care is still behind other industries. There needs to be a real push to create better… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope… — Confucius Copy Share Image
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if… — Paul Jacob Copy Share Image
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“When you set man against the vastness of the cosmos, the only thing left is humility, a virtue he often discards in… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis 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
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
