Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that… — Charles Dickens 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
“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
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves… — John Morley Copy Share Image
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake Copy Share Image
