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“It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.”

May Has Beens Country Would Be Nations Difficult Interesting Destiny Virtue Crime Vices Bitter Globes Compulsion Most Interesting Armenians

Author:Lord Byron

“Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.”

Heart Has Beens Virtue Plant Obedience Preserves

Author:Pope Gregory I

“God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Done Remember Virtue Humility Very Good

Book:The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations

Source: The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations

“The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.”

Has Beens Religious Healing Virtue Divides Marginalized Haves And Have Nots Words Of Hope

Book:The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ

Source: The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ

“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.”

“Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.”

Littles Has Beens Moral Virtue Shots Harm Thrones Anarchist

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.”

Has Beens Whole Interest Virtue Progress Draws Progression Compounds Compound Interest

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)