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I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.
The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.
So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.