Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
True modesty is the source of all virtues.
Vice Admiral Allen is doing an exceptional job, and he has my full support in the important work ahead,
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
It's an opportunity for the vice president to talk about the questions relating to this issue and also to talk about his concern for his friend Mr. Whittington.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken they are ours to be trained and strengthened. Our affections are not ours to be blighted and crucified they are ours to be deepened and purified. The rich opportunities of life are not held out to us only to be snatched away by an invisible hand patiently waiting for the hour when the cup is sweetest they are given to us that we may grow, alike through their rise or their withdrawal. They are real, they are sweet, and they are worthy of our longing for them we gain nothing by calling them dross, or the world an illusion, or ourselves the victims of deception, or by exalting renunciation as the highest virtue. When these opportunities are denied us, it is a real, not an imaginary, loss which we sustain and our part is not that of bare renunciation, of simple surrender our part is to recognize the loss, to bear the pain, and to find a deeper and richer life in doing the will of God.
Soon Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.
There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.
He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content; Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars; That make ambition virtue.
If zealous love should go in search of virtue,
Where should he find it purer than in Blanch?
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal virtues. Always insist on it in your subordinates and dependents.
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
The root is education and the fruit is virtue.
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence courage without ferocity and all the virtues of man without his vices.
Vice President Cheney broke the law.
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. 'If a piece of work is heavy and complicated then it is wrong.' ... Some writers feel that to express their ideas in simple terms is degrading. Some use complexity to disguise the paucity of their material. In fact, simplicity is a virtue and when, as here, it is both original and useful, it can represent a real advance in knowledge.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
I hate ingratitude more in a person than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. Twelfth Night
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
There's certainly no constitutional provision with how to deal with the death of a vice presidential candidate during the electoral cycle.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Cuts will be made from investment, material and manufacturing expenses, according to the vice chairman. Lutz also alluded to further changes in its engineering operations, citing healthcare spending and Delphis bankruptcy as a challenge to maintaining engineering operations in the U.S. If economic conditions are such that it becomes economically unfeasible to produce vehicles inside the United States as opposed to importing them from somewhere else, youd be foolish to keep building, ... We dont make that decision. The overall economic environment makes that decision.
I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence it has not the ballot-box before it its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue.
I am worthless, without virtue, all virtues are Yours, O Lord.
Gambling' suggests vice, the shady underside of games of chance. 'Gaming' suggests sportsmanlike, honorable behavior in which there are rules that are enforced, and there is no shady underside.
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue; Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble; Of Nature's own creating.
I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
If you wish to become a divine immortal angel, then restore the angelic qualities of your being through virtue and service. This is the only way to gain the attention of the immortals... These angelic teachers cannot be sought out it is they who seek out the student. When you succeed in connecting your energy with the divine realm through high awareness and the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the transmission of the ultimate subtle truths will follow.
Listen, O my mind, my friend, my darling, now is the time to meet the Lord. As long as there is youth and breath, give this body to Him. Without virtue, it is useless the body shall crumble into a pile of dust.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
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