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Tag Name "Virtuous" (373)

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In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?
Valmiki
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Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
William Shakespeare
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The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.
Richard Dawkins
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It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.
Christopher Jones
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Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!
Alexander Hamilton
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What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
John Keats
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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
Tom G. Palmer
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Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
Benjamin Franklin
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
John Dryden
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the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.
Susanna Rowson
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For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
Publilius Syrus
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The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.
Samuel Adams
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You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.
Konosuke Matsushita
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To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
Jean Giraudoux
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He who is virtuous is wise and he who is wise is good and he who is good is happy.
Boethius
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I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
Cornel West
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Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Josh Billings
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Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their “discernment.
Bill Johnson
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Acts of virtue ripen into habits and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
Thomas Chalmers
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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
Leo Tolstoy
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There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
Ann Radcliffe
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Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.
Thomas Sherlock
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Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium.
George Antheil
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