Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.” — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The ideals of China's Communist government run completely contrary to the virtues we hold dear. They cannot be allowed to permeate our… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
“Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfin’d; And clap your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“The virtues of resourcefulness, self-composure, patience, hardiness, not to mention a sense of humour, were prized as highly as those of bravery,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Can they supinely dream life away in the lap of pleasure, or in the languor of weariness, rather than assert their claim… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“True spiritual virtues can have no opposite, but they can wear masks and costumes. Joy often masquerades as anger; innocence often dresses… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“People who looked after animals were by and large kind people; they simply practised kindness, unlike those who made much of it.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged. And I fear that when you can… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It’s no more than a fact and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“[G]enerosity... is the mistress and queen that gives lustre to every virtue, as it is not hard to prove. Where could one… — Chrétien de Troyes Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Some people measure the worth of good actions only by their natural qualities or their difficulty, giving the preference solely to what… — Jean-Pierre Camus Copy Share Image
“Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think… — Sir Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
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