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Tag Name "Virtuous" (373)

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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
John Milton
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Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin Luther
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
Samuel Butler
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Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .
Deepak Chopra
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Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.
Jacques Chirac
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One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told I have not noticed it.
Bertrand Russell
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
Henry David Thoreau
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.
Paul Bourget
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They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.
Norm MacDonald
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The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.
David Rees
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...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.
Gregory Palamas
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The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance he offers absolution.
H. L. Mencken
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It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim never say never is one of the most important in ethics.
Julian Baggini
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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
Laurence Sterne
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It turns out that justices are also God’s children and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.
Mark Levin
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Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .
Jefferson Davis
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
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Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.
Neil Gaiman
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As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
Philip Sidney
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The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Mason Cooley
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
Alain de Botton
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
Abdallah II
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