Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully limited.
Laura van den Berg
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I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.
Jonathan Frakes
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
Dayananda Saraswati
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon
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I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
Christopher Meloni
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
Conrad Hilton
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Adela Florence Nicolson
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Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
Apollonius of Tyana
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There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.
Edward Everett
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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
William Slim
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Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.
Zachary Taylor
EducationChildrenMoneyWayVirtue
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William Shakespeare
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Impatience is a virtue.
Ursula Burns
VirtueImpatience
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
Randy Forbes
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Virtue is harmony.
Pythagoras
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.
Sheila Heti
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu
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What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Richard Mentor Johnson
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