RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
“The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues:… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the… — Menzies Campbell Copy Share Image
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades. — William Anthony Donohue Copy Share Image
Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Being defiant is a two-year-old who doesn't want to go to bed when he's tired. Being resolute is standing one's ground even… — Minisinoo Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
