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Tag Name "Virtues" (710)

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True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
Therese of Lisieux
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Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
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Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
Robert A. Heinlein
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And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.
Peter Damian
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I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.
Flannery O'Connor
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Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
R. H. Tawney
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
John Ruskin
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As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.
Masiela Lusha
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Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
Stephen Prothero
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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
Seneca the Younger
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A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
John of Salisbury
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Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues have something in them so inviting and genial, and the public virtues of the citizen something so grand and inspiring, that even he who is barely uncorrupted, is seldom able to resist their charm.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
John Locke
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Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
Ted Malloch
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When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.
Chico Xavier
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The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.
David E. Cooper
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Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.
Kenneth Minogue
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Moliere
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Rich apparel has strange virtues it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
Ben Jonson
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
William Shenstone
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.
David Cottrell
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