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Virtue Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.…
- He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments -…
- Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every…
- But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
- There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
- The virtue of books is to be readable.
- Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the…
- A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
- The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
- Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
- The highest virtue is always against the law.
- Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the…
- I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet…
- There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
- The only reward of virtue is virtue.
- What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]
- By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to…
- All the devils respect virtue.
- A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
- The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what…
- Tart, cathartic virtue.
- The virtue in most request is conformity.
- The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
- Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
- The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is…
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine