The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are… — Theodore Hook Copy Share Image
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that for himself, because in every man is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained, that we… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
