We rarely like the virtues we have not.
We rarely like the virtues we have not.
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
Purchase the jewel, the priceless treasure, the True Guru has given this understanding. The profit of profits is devotional worship of the Lord, one s virtues merge into the virtues of the Lord.
They preach humanity the virtues of virtuosity and religiousness. God rewards such people by removing all the hurdles from their path.
There was only one virtue, pugnacity only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
This selection now presents the vice president with an interesting test of whether he will continue attacking positions his running mate shares.
Vice President Dick Cheney won tonight because he countered rhetoric with the facts -- calling into question not just the deficiencies of Kerry's record, but calling into question Kerry and Edwards' credibility as candidates and as U.S. senators,
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
True religion is the poetry of the heart it has enchantments useful to our manners it gives us both happiness and virtue.
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from winch the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly,
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
I felt like somebody had a vice and was squeezing it on my head.
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say.
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their
Vice President Gore does not favor higher gasoline prices for consumers. That is not the case,
I say unto you, what he hath done famously he did it
to that end; though soft-conscienc'd men can be content to say it
was for his country, he did it to please his mother and to be
partly proud, which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue.
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
We should end this tax death on virtue, work, savings, job creation and the American dream, and end it for good.
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
If he's got a problem with what went on in the past, he ought to explain what it is. I think the vice president ought to speak out on it.
While parts of his proposal merit serious consideration, to convince a skeptical public that his efforts are sincere and not an election year conversion, the Vice President needs to back his words with meaningful, bipartisan action, as well as call for a complete and open investigation of 1996 campaign finance irregularities.
The Messenger of God was asked, 'What is the greatest vice of man' He said, 'You must not ask me about vice, but ask about virtue' and he repeated this three times, after which he said, 'Know ye The worst of men is a bad learned man, and a good learned man is the best.'
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
David has always been one of those quietly influential staffers that has an impact all of out proportion to their public profile. He knows how to get things done, and when he talks, people listen because they know he has the authority of the vice president behind him.
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
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 we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
If anything important happens, obviously we'll talk with the president as well. But at this point, we've agreed that my personal reports will be to the vice president over that weekend.
Forbearance, compassion and incorruptible virtue are the three pillars of a happy life. Only such a life can be called civilized the rest is barbarian existence.
Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers.
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