Traveling and being in foreign cultures has always been really stimulating for me, partly because, when I'm living abroad, everything is new… — Joshua Marston Copy Share Image
“Yea... It's impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers... people who do not cheer you up,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had the virtue of wanting to hang out with people who were more talented than me. I can't write songs, I… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city… — Karen Kijewski Copy Share Image
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
You are not now to think what's best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter'd; and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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