There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
“That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human,… — Francis Levy 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
Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right… — Eleanor Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Before I knowed it, I was saying out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
