I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
Despite all the problems with the old committee-era Congress, one of the virtues was that chairs were not only centers of power, but they held vast knowledge about public policy and the ... rules of the House. Chairmen could be counted on to find ways to move legislation forward and to improve - or reform - programs, based on a deep knowledge of their history. Today ... chairmen do not have that kind of memory.
I'm not going to get into all the discussions that are had, but it was the vice president's office that took the lead on this.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
So the vice president of sales or marketing will often become key to the decision to use hosted or in-house CRM. Usually, hosted is chosen when a very fast marketing solution is needed.
THE greatest of the virtues is Love. Love is the basis of Character. You may have all other desirable things in plenty but if you have no character, that is to say Virtue, which is all strung on Love, you cannot have genuine Peace.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and the beginning of wisdom is to have got rid of folly.
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
He's had the vice president bail him out, and now he's got to have the delegation prop him up. That's got to be humiliating.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.
They're all losing it. That's why people think they are ripe to be buried, Mr. Vice President.
Virtue is the one and only nobility.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
This is my own opinion but I have raised it a limited cabinet minister's meeting. The energy and mineral resources minister and the vice president have agreed to it.
All virtues are Yours, O my Lord and Master, with what mouth should I praise You
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
That's the NRA. We can speculate about their motives, but what's important is that the vice president was able to save himself and the American people by his quick action.
Ours has much more to do with the Masonic theme. Mozart was really intrigued by the ideals of the Masons and wanting to have truth, virtue and reason be the model by which people live by.
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
We told him what he needed to hear. And I think our messages were received. The vice president shared some of his ideas, listened to ours and offered to have an ongoing dialogue.
The resistance of a woman to a mans advances is not always a sign of virtue. Sometimes its just a sign of experience.
The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
On or about July 12, 2003, Libby flew with the Vice President and others to and from Norfolk, Virginia on Air Force Two. On his return trip, Libby discussed with other officials aboard the plane what Libby should say in response to certain pending media inquiries, including questions from Time reporter Matthew Cooper.
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
But technology is a tool, not a virtue.
I do not need your garlands and fruits. They are not genuinely yours. Give me something that is yours, something which is clean and fragrant with the perfume of virtue and innocence and washed in the tears of repentance.
For the last 10 months, the vice president's campaign has been ignoring and now they want to debate me. I think that says we're making some progress.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
This started from the very beginning when David Addington, the vice president's lawyer, was a staunch advocate of allowing the president in his capacity as commander in chief to deviate from the Geneva Conventions,
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
No I disagree with that. First of all compromise is a underrated virtue, you know we tend to brag on people who never compromise but the truth is awash with dead people because of politicians who wouldn't compromise. I think sometimes compromise is the greatest virtue.
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, As poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects, arranges, and uses them Beneficially against the ills of life.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
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