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Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
In order to take a nation to war, you have to believe mightily in the threat you are facing and the virtue of your cause.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.
Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.
It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.
The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.
I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past, future, etc.
Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.