Virtues Quotes

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...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell. — Josh Billings
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our… — Joseph Story
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war.… — John T. Flynn
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,… — Joan Didion
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other… — Henry David Thoreau
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. — Giuseppe Mazzini
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not… — Confucius
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious… — Richard Dawkins
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make… — Alec Guinness
Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isnâ€™t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor… — Douglas Wilson
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to… — Joseph Campbell
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people.… — Barbara Brown Taylor
It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in their own country,… — Mona Charen
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and… — Alexander Nehamas
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can… — John of Salisbury
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present… — Lionel Trilling
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. — Jean Genet
Without courage, all other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist. — Edward Abbey
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey

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