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Monday, 13 October 2008
Daily Quote:
"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever." (Carlyle, Thomas - Age and Aging)

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Browse Quotations about Virtue

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ah, Eug?nie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
I used to be snow white, but I drifted.
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.
If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
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.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.