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Vice and Virtue
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# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
# · Not So Good (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
# · Not So Good (13 ratings) · submitted 1997
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
# · Not So Good (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
# · Not So Good (13 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Humility is the first of the virtues — for other people.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner — born a sinner, die a saint.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
# · Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
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