Brave Quote by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor…

— Benjamin Thompson

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close…

— Victor Hugo

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recognize the good in others, not their stains.

— Richard G. Scott

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon

Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.

— William Godwin

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people…

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

— Plato

We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject.…

— Laozi