Quotes 201 till 220 of 369.
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Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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Spite of all the fools that pride has made, 'Tis not on man a useless burthen laid; Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; It hurts not in itself, but as 'tis placed; When right, its views know none but virtue's bound; When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
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Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
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Suspicion is rather a virtue than a fault, as long as it doth like a dog that watcheth, and doth not bite.
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
Eupsychian Management : A Journal (1965) p. 212 -
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
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The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. 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.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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