Best my-heart & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?”

Heart Suffering Heaven Virtue My Heart Sake Hunger Thirst Survived Tested Awakened Mockery Hunger And Thirst

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.”

Men Heart Hands Virtue Feet My Heart Meat Stomach Belly Knots

Book:Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings

“I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.”

Heart Speak Virtue My Heart Worship Spring Charm Addresses Abstraction

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.”

Heart Virtue My Heart Envy Teeth Lament Emulation

Book:Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc

Source: Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc

“The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.”

Way Heart Art Said Support Virtue Masters My Heart Benevolence Recreation

Book:Confucius: The Analects

Source: Confucius: The Analects

“...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.”

Heart Important Reason Pain Sin Virtue Love You My Heart Highest Understood Accepted I Realized Burning Reasoning Unhappiness Unnecessary Petty Deceptive

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.”

Heart Kind Persons Virtue Duty My Heart Branches Contempt Despise Immoral Obliged

Author:John Adams

“As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear.”

Men Want Heart Kind Stills Fall Grows Lines Known Forever Growing Up Virtue Taken Happened My Heart Rain Rivers Western Artificial Wayne Heroines Be The Kind Of Woman

Author:Joan Didion

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