But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears,… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch… — Saadi Copy Share Image
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government,… — Jesse Taylor Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold. — Amitai Etzioni Copy Share Image
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of… — John Dee Copy Share Image
When we talk about adversity, this is the moment when character really gets tested. When things aren't going the way you want… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
