Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
For a Vice President's office that needs a fresh start this team seems to be a stale move to hunker down and get in the bunker,
What this illustrates is the virtue of being more plain-spoken and the dangers when you are not.
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the Senate stated 'We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should be lain in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles it is in vain to look for public virtue.'
She weeps, thinking of her Husband Lord, and she constantly cherishes His virtues, her Husband Lord does not die, or go away.
Virtue tested Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart
Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few very far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.
It was an ambulance on standby for the vice president's visit. It had been dedicated and it was given up to treat the victim.
The brilliant chariots of kings are destroyed, the body also approaches destruction, but the virtue of good people never approaches destruction,thus do the good say to the good.
Refrain from seeing and speaking of the vices of mankind, which you know are in yourself.
I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority,
All the senators were there, and Frank Capra was in a box with his wife with the vice president and his wife, and several other senators. They, as the picture started going, became very quiet. After the picture had been going for three quarters of an hour, the film broke. Frank didn't know where the projection room was exactly, and he found himself outside the building, crawling up a ladder.
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
Aiding the needy has always been a traditional Chinese virtue. The Spring Festival alms program embodies a combination of the virtue and the political ideology of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
All calamities and vices, afterwards, when he has fully considered their relative importance, let him begin his operations.
I've not said that the vice president has done anything wrong, ... What I have said is there is a basis for (an) independent counsel.
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments is the rich and royal man.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
It's a personal blow to the vice president.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Did your company or any representatives in your companies participate in Vice President Cheney's energy force in 2001
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
I hope others look to him and say it can happen. Hopefully they realize patience is of virtue.
It's disgusting that Ken Blackwell preaches morality in his campaign for governor but gains wealth privately from vice.
This is very much a federal issue. What happens in Florida affects people all over the United States. The president is the one person, along with the vice president, elected by all of the people in the United States, and there is abiding national concern with the fairness and legality of the process.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
. . . being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
Humility does not consist in hiding our talents and virtues, in thinking ourselves worse and more ordinary than we are, But in possessing a clear knowledge of all that is lacking in us and in not exalting ourselves for that which we.
His name hasn't surfaced so often and he wasn't a finalist as a vice presidential candidate because he isn't up to the task. But I think that it's a bridge too far. There's too much to do. It's too early.
Modesty is the citadel of beauty and virtue.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Prayer is the yearning of the spirit. It is the message of the soul sent directly to a loving father. The language is not mere words, but a loving heart in tune with the infinite. Sincere praying implies that when we ask for any blessing or virtue we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.
Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and progress, everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Your breath comes to its end, O my merchant friend, and your shoulders are weighed down by the tyrant of old age. Not one iota of virtue came into you, O my merchant friend bound and gagged by evil, you are driven along.
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