Quotes about virtue
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No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)- Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769), volume i, p. 273All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 1, volume v, p. 286- Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
Bo Burnhamborn 1990Words Words Words (2010)
Robert Burns1759–1796A Winter Night (1787)The rank is but the guinea’s stamp,
The man’s the gowd for a’ that.God knows, I’m no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be.Robert Burns1759–1796Posthumous Pieces (1799)O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine,
A man’s a man for a’ that.
William S. Burroughs1914–1997The Place Of Dead Roads (1983), p. 155
