Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

The order of things consents to virtue.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

There is explosive power in virtue.

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.