#virtue

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. ↗

— Paul Getty

#considered #era #i #still #thrift

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#modesty #nobler #resides #seldom #virtues

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#eradicating #excellence #faults #nearly #out

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#extremism #justice #liberty #moderation #pursuit

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#also #defense #extremism #i #justice

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#anyone #cent #comes #complete #else

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#australia #cannot #development #government #nations

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#either #extreme #mediocrity #vice #virtue

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#each #fallibility #frailty #humanity #instinctively