Virtue Quotes

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. E. W. Howe

Women Valuable Men Men And Women Virtue Must Pretend Degrees

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? Edgar Rice Burroughs

Man Virtue Say Would Would-Be No Desire One-Man Shall Another Because Does Were His Child Vice Whether Who Desire Desires

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. Edmund Husserl

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue. Edmund Phelps

Remember Old Important Enough Virtue Considered Thrift Frugality Old Enough

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. Edward Dahlberg

Become Nothing Virtue Our Unattractive Times

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. Edward Dahlberg

Love Fear Men Young Virtue Machine Machines Had Induce Inertia Pernicious Effect Pity Which Young Men Used Near

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. Edward Everett

Home Virtue Like Sanctuary

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Happiness Best Rest Other Virtue Only Happiest Each

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Virtue alone has majesty in death. Edward Young

Death Alone Virtue Majesty

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. Elizabeth I

Natural Sex Virtue Our Those Afflicted Pitiful Incident

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised. Emily Mortimer

Funny People Before Think Virtue Telling About How Making Am Up Maybe Crap Stories Realised Themselves Notice Now Chance

All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression. Ephraim Mirvis

Oppression Validating Virtue Wrestle Makes Scourge Prejudice Societies

Donald Trump's rise is certainly a symptom of our fading virtue and faith, but ironically, he may well be our only hope for finding our way back to bolder expressions of them. Eric Metaxas

Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free. Eric Metaxas

Faith Freedom Religion You Free Virtue Turn Requires Utterly

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. Francis Arinze

Today Culture World Virtue TV Tendency Around Always Copy

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. Francis Bacon

Best Rich Virtue Like Stone Plain Set

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. Francois Fenelon

Mind Virtue Extremes Carried Moderation Neatness

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. Francois Rabelais

Me Believe Heroic Virtue Godlike Owe Tis Lend Thing

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. Frank Miller

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