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real giving gold
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility Charles Caleb Colton
real passion deceit
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
real deceit our-actions
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real evil lasts
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
real honest strategy
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
reality drawing views
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.
real character mean
Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real atmosphere gold
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.
real home thinking
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
virtue
Patience is not a virtue! Alan Chadwick
virtue thrifty ifs
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not. William Shakespeare
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
virtue
There is a virtue in shamelessness. David Brooks
virtue crushed
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed. Baroness Orczy
virtue repetition
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ... Eliza Haywood
virtue
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Bertolt Brecht
virtue used eternal-vigilance
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible. Benjamin Netanyahu
virtue democratic candidates
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected. Bernard Meltzer
possibility newcastle bigs
There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager. Alan Shearer
possibility walks
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Charlotte Bronte
possibility
We read to find life, in all its possibilities. Claire Messud
possibility
Forgiveness is something that's always possibility. Amy Poehler
possibility
When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything. Ann Brashares
possibility difficulty
There is possibility in every difficulty. Albert Einstein
possibility endless feathers
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless. Anne Rice
possibility unreal meetings
This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. Dag Hammarskjold
possibility constant probability
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well. Cornel West