The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are… — George Will Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The virtue of small-to-midsize companies is that they tend to be more flexible and it is easier to experiment with new ways… — Roger Martin Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image