A Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
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February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

Jean de la Bruyere

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Samuel Butler

A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.

Simon Soloveychik

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

Samuel Johnson

Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.

Philip Larkin

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Alexander Pope

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

John Milton

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Benjamin Franklin

If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious.

Manmohan Singh

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

Chanakya

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

Jeff Weiner

The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle.

Paul Martin

To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.

Benjamin Haydon

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

H. L. Mencken

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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