William Dunbar Quotes
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Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
Kevin Spacey
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
D. Todd Christofferson
If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.
Ian Mckellen
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Saint Augustine
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
Archibald Alexander
We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.
Nicolas Malebranche
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de L'Enclos
...God notices the most trivial act, accepts the poorest, most threadbare little service, listens to the coldest, feeblest petition, and gathers up with parental fondness all our fragmentary desires and attempts at good works. Oh, if we could only begin to conceive how He loves us, what different creatures we should be!
Elizabeth Prentiss
By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.
Willis Harman
Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
William Dunbar
