There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings. — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily,… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern… — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.” — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface. — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
