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Virtues Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments -…
- Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
- 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]
- 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…
- The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
- In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
- The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
- What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with…
- But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where…
- There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not…
- What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
More Virtues Quotes
- 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
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man… — Francis Bacon
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
- Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
- When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for… — Honore de Balzac
- Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as… — Annie Besant
- Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott