Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.
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Thiruvalluvar
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
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Mary MacLane
I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?
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Robert A. Heinlein
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
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John Locke
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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George Washington
More Quotes By Thomas Merton
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
