Quotes 221 till 240 of 369.
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The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) , p. 20 -
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
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The highest virtue is always against the law.
Conduct of Life (1876) Worship -
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
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