Quotes about virtue
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Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society. Rush Limbaugh
virtue said intellect
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of. Thomas Carlyle
virtue stubbornness ifs
Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right. Tony Dungy
virtue foolish theory
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Romain Rolland
virtue interest paragon
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. Steve Coogan
virtue needed greater
It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked Susan Wiggs
virtue cardinals contempt
Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue. Steven Pressfield
virtue virtuous offended
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous. Richard Steele
virtue excuse pot
Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) Sherrilyn Kenyon
virtue chimes ifs
Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. John Milton
virtue circumstances prudence
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
virtue chimes teach
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
virtue nobility truest
Virtue is the truest nobility. Miguel de Cervantes
virtue blushing colour
Blushing is the colour of virtue. Matthew Henry
virtue offense rejecting
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it. Marilynne Robinson
virtue christ easy
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life. John Stuart Mill
virtue servant willing
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. Philip Sidney
virtue
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
virtue goddess getting-along
Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along. John Ruskin
virtue nobility
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also. Gary Zukav
virtue ifs wrongdoing
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. Euripides
virtue crushed
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Francis Bacon
virtue guides
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. Frances Wright
virtue immortality ifs
There is no virtue if there is no immortality. Fyodor Dostoevsky
virtue stills
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue. George R. R. Martin
virtue adaptability
Unadaptability is often a virtue. Flannery O'Connor
virtue fame
Make a virtue of necessity. Geoffrey Chaucer
virtue vicious virtuous
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
virtue distinction hard
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot. Friedrich Nietzsche
virtue whatever-happens happens
for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens... Jeremy Taylor
virtue arise vigorous
When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
virtue virtuous persons
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. Jawaharlal Nehru