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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
— John Locke
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple ... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
— John Vianney
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
— John Dryden
Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
— Menzies Campbell
Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
— John Vanbrugh
Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.
— John Steinbeck
Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.
— John Bruna
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
— John Dryden
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.
— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.
— John Webster
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
— John Milton
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
— John Tillotson
Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.
— J. Oswald Sanders
The great creative individual ... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
— John Stuart Mill
Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.
— John Adams
Let frugality and industry be our virtues.
— John Adams
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
— John Tillotson
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
— John Maynard Keynes
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.
— John Perry Barlow
The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.
— St. John Climacuslimacus
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
— John Armstrong
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The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.
— John Cassian
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
— John Wycliffe
Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.
— John Milton
Endurance is the queen of all virtues.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
— John Milton
No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.
— John Cassian
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
— John Bradshaw
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
— John Robert Seeley
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.
— John Milton
Virtue is not always amiable.
— John Adams
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
— John Vanbrugh
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
— John Milton
Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry;And in themselves seek virtue; and to themselves
All glory arrogate, to God give none — John Milton
Love's like virtue, its own reward.
— John Vanbrugh
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
— John Jay Chapman
Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.
— John Dryden
Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
— John Milton
Self-respect,the corner-stone of all virtue. — John Herschel
Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.
— John L'Heureux
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.
— John Adams
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
— John Marshall
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven.
— St. John Climacus
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
— Pope John Paul II
No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
— John F. Kennedy
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
— John Frederick Boyes
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
— John Henry Newman
Justice is happiness according to virtue.
— John Rawls
We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And
— John Calvin
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
— John Ortberg
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
— John Steinbeck
He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.
— John Steinbeck
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
— John Milton
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
— John Herschel
Saving became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth
— John Maynard Keynes
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
— John Ruskin
There is more virtue in one sin to destroy, than in all thy righteousness to save thee alive.
— John Bunyan
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
— John Milton
If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.
— John Howard Griffin
Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.
— John Adams
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
— John Milton
Most men admireVirtue who follow not her lore. — John Milton
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
— John Ruskin
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
— John Of Salisbury
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
— John Ridley
Virtue is her own reward.
— John Dryden
