Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
But I'm not going to characterize what went on in those meetings, other than to say flatly I did not, and have not, offered anybody the vice presidency.
Man is not merely a combination of appetites, instincts, passions and curiosity. Something more is needed to explain great human deeds, virtues, sacrifices, martyrdom. There is an element in the great mystics, the saints, the prophets, whose influence has been felt for centuries, which escapes mere intelligence.
You fool, chant the Name of the Lord, and preserve your virtue.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
The easy, gentle, and sloping path ... is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
RICHES, n.A gift from Heaven signifying, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. --John D. RockefellerThe reward of toil and virtue. --J.P. MorganThe sayings of many in the hands of one. --Eugene DebsTo these excellent definitions the inspired lexicographer feels that he can add nothing of value.
The virtuous soul brides dwell on the virtues of God, they keep their Husband Lord in their remembrance, and they never suffer separation from Him.
To be amiable is most certainly a duty but it is not to be exercised at the expense of any virtue. He who seeks to always do the amiable thing can at times be successful only by the sacrifice of his manhood.
In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature in man it is vice.
Many of the things that are being said, if they are believed by the American people as the truth, will cast a pall of illegitimacy over the vice president if he ends up being the person that wins,
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good humor, which is no more a virtue than drunkenness.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Abuse nobody, and if a man abuse thee, and lay upon a vice which he knoweth in thee then do not disclose one which thou knowest in him.
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
I raised the issue with the vice premier when I was in China in February and expressed to him how seriously we view these allegations and I will do so again and also make clear to all of you that they are currently under judicial investigation.
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
I thought Joe did a fabulous job, as the vice president did on Tuesday night, of laying out of the significant differences that exist with regard to Social Security and Medicare.
For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun he has exteriorized his rottenness. If he has not actually got rid of it, he at least no longer smears it over with a hypocritical show of virtue -- he lives at least upon a basis of veracity.
I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.
I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages.
So they lived, these men, in their own lusty, cheery fashion--rude and rough, but honest, kindly and true. Let us thank God if we have outgrown their vices. Let us pray to God that we may ever hold their virtues.
That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.
They made arrangements at the sheriff's request to have deputies come out and interview the vice president the following morning at 8 a.m. and that indeed did happen.
One of the first things we did was establish that there was the shot-caller behind the scenes on the conspiracy side. We wanted to make it a woman, because we thought that would be an intriguing image. But, secondarily, we wanted to play against people's assumptions that the woman must be the president's wife or something and never really think that the woman could be the vice president.
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
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