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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.
Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.
Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it's not something we F1 people have too much of.
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
For in the fatness of these pursy times
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
But virtue never will be mov'd,
Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.
It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.
Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
I wrap myself up in virtue.
[Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.