Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth,… — William Watson Copy Share Image
Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify… — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Copy Share Image
Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is… — Bonnie D. Parkin Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to… — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe… — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's… — Joan Wallach Scott 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
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is… — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, some because they have arms, some because they… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
