A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Virtue is too often merely local.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady; the latter, constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he too often flings the remainder of his virtue after it in despair.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

Mahatma Gandhi

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

Ayn Rand

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

John Major

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

Zora Neale Hurston

Far too often, local voices have been overlooked when it comes to planning transportation projects.

Alex Padilla

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

Elizabeth Drew

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Elizabeth Drew

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

Hervey Allen

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

Hervey Allen

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Napoleon Hill

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.

P. J. O'Rourke

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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