The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Patience and understanding are two rarest virtue humans could have today. — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are… — Theodore Hook Copy Share Image
Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
What I did by virtue of skipping a lot of classes was get two undergraduate degrees and a master's in four years.… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of… — Plato Copy Share Image
A particular place in the land is never, for an oral culture, just a passive or inert setting for the human events… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
It is good to LOOK to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the FUTURE. It is good… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little… — Charles Henry Fowler Copy Share Image
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power. — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Integrity is never given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;” — Molière Copy Share Image
The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up. — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
“And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?” — John Milton Copy Share Image
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