The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
The Lord, the Giver of Virtue, dwells forever within the minds of those who keep Truth enshrined within their hearts.
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in the world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in a republic, the other is represented by a despotism. The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of men. Of course we can help to restrain the vicious and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Peace, justice, charity- these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of Divine Grace.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
The seeds of sin and virtue are bound together.
Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience, and celibacy Are the canonical vices.
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
In recent years, China-Singapore relations have maintained a good momentum of development thanks to the frequent visits between leaders of the two countries and the establishment of a joint commission at the vice premier level.
Sometimes even in the metaphysical schools people just get blinders on like fundamental orthodoxy only in metaphysical dressings, and it's as rigid as anything else. So for a spiritual community of any kind to stay open is a tremendous virtue.
I think not only should the president appear before the American public and explain what is going on and take a few questions from the press, but certainly the vice president should do that, ... Late Edition.
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity.It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personalvalues.
To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue.
Hypocrisy is homage paid by vice to virtue.
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
once again shows why the vice president has a problem with credibility.
Leaking classified information to discredit White House critics, the vice president is behind that,
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Anger is a noble infirmity the generous failing of the just the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
I kept wondering what he meant when he says our leaders need to aim higher, but now that the vice president is coming to campaign for him, I think I understand it.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
The man in whom Tao acts without impediment harms no other being by his actions yet he does not know himself to be 'kind', to be 'gentle'.... (He) does not bother with his own interests and does not despise others who do. He does not struggle to make money and does not make a virtue of poverty. He goes his way without relying on others and does not pride himself on walking alone. While he does not follow the crowd he won't complain of those who do. Rank and reward make no appeal to him disgrace and shame do not deter him. He is not always looking for right and wrong, always deciding 'Yes' or 'No.' The ancients said, therefore The man of Tao remains unknown. Perfect virtue produces nothing. 'No-Self' is 'True-Self'. And the greatest man is Nobody.
The trumpet of his own virtues.
Vice President Gore needed to change the dynamics of the debate.
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Because it's a national-bound tournament, some of the vice presidents of the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association are going to be here.
We had hoped that Republicans would respond to the challenge. Instead what we've got is more than 2 million in these secret stealth campaigns that are attacking Democrats and attacking the vice president right now.
I think the reason it took the Vice President a day to talk about this is part of the secretive nature of this administration. The American people are not entitled to know what is going in their mindset. They keep things pretty close to the chest.
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
Humanity is a Virtue all preach, none practice, and yet every body is content to hear
Dollars All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars.
Drunk with sexual desire and other great sins, you go astray, and do not distinguish between vice and virtue. Gazing upon your children and your property, your mind is proud and arrogant you cast out the Lord from your heart.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
He came in, walked by individuals who were working and specifically targeted the individuals we believe he shot, ... They were from the accounting division. And the woman who was at the reception desk at the time was a vice president, I believe, of human resources.
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