All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate… — Boethius Copy Share Image
The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to… — Richard Holloway 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
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility… Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as… — Paul Pruyser Copy Share Image
Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have… — John Locke Copy Share Image
My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
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