Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Sabine gave a Scoff. " I could be virtuous, if I wanted to be." In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori… — Horace Copy Share Image
Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly… — Harold Perrineau Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence,… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is… — Judas Iscariot Copy Share Image
“We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man… — Percy Dearmer Copy Share Image
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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