He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
“Virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom are the pillars of everyday well-being, personal growth, and spiritual practice; they draw on the three fundamental neural… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
One of the great blessings of the restored gospel is the privilege of entering into sacred covenants with our Father in Heaven-covenants… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he… — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience… — Carl Hilty Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an… — African Spir Copy Share Image
You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Looking deeper into African way of life, it wasn't religious; it was spiritual. When you go into spiritualism, spiritualism will teach you… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold.… — Solon Copy Share Image
I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you… — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
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
Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot - he's the president of the United States. By virtue of… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God,… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in… — Randy Cohen Copy Share Image
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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