Quotes 121 till 140 of 162.
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
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The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people's deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse - that our leaders 'can't do anything right,' that things are utterly falling apart.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
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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.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.The merchant of Venice 3, 2 -
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.
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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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Thus every Part was full of Vice,
Yet the whole Mass a Paradise;
Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars,
They were th' Esteem of Foreigners,
And lavish of their Wealth and Lives,
The Balance of all other Hives.The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 155, p. 9 -
Thus Vice nurs'd Ingenuity,
Which join'd with Time and Industry,
Had carry'd Life's Conveniences,
It's real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease,
To such a Height, the very Poor
Liv'd better than the Rich before.The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 197, p. 11 -
To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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