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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.


William Hazlitt

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WILLIAM HAZLITT Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice
CHINESE PROVERBS As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN They coach their quarterbacks as well as anyone in the country. That's just a given at William and M...
TIM STOWERS The vice among hypocrites is their virtue
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN FRANCIS All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contigu...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contigu...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their a...
BIBLE To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you...

"Dexter: You seem uncertain. I...
DEYTH BANGER People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, ...
E.M. FORSTER People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, ...
E. M. FORSTER There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, bu...
ANNA SEWELL No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexper...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable i...
WILL DURANT Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable i...
WILL DURANT Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between...
ANDRE BRETON To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritu...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling...
GEORGE A. MOORE There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British r...
MARIO TESTINO For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.
JULIUS WELLHAUSEN You can't deal with being odd?
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Become like them...

Become drug delear...
DEYTH BANGER There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convinc...
JUNIUS In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.
NORMAN MAILER There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the p...
SAMUEL BECKETT As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable...
HANNAH ARENDT That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoni...
VOLTAIRE God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the ...
BISHOP ROBERT SOUTH God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the c...
ROBERT SOUTH Their notoriety is going to play a factor in this as well. We have to take into account their safety...
LINDA FOGLIA Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and mis...
BLAISE PASCAL A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- ...
LYMAN ABBOTT I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon...
BIBLE In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish th...
MATT RUFF When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appet...
JOHN WOOLMAN A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; b...
THOMAS PAINE A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, b...
THOMAS PAINE There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, bu...
ANNA SEWELL Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the ma...
CLARA ZETKIN The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this the...
BENJAMIN RUSH Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.
GEORGE HERBERT The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about sin...
BILL BENNETT These folks are the leader in their industry, and they have tremendous market share and they're grow...
FRED SEARS In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and ...
JOHN STEINBECK Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For m...
BEN JONSON Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, i...
COLIN HAY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or ...
JANE AUSTEN I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better...
ANITA HILL It's in their interest to do as quick a job, as good a job as possible, to protect their employees a...
RON YODA All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slave...
NOAH WEBSTER There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and ...
THEODORE DALRYMPLE There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that g...
BYRON DORGAN Superstitious persons, who know better how to rail at vice than how to teach virtue, and who strive ...
BARUCH SPINOZA Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice
THOMAS PAINE Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
THOMAS PAINE By promoting a serial murderer into the national hero, his victims are being killed once again and S...
VUK DRASKOVIC We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given th...
DUANE CHAPMAN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. ...
NATHANIEL SMITH There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their ...
ANNA SEWELL I congratulate Joe, William, and Christopher for their impressive achievements today. Every one of t...
KATHLEEN BORDELON Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise the...
NAFTALI BENNETT A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have un...
MARCEL PROUST The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one o...
IKE SKELTON As you may follow, they are an extremely hostile species (i.e. there is no word for ‘welcome’ in...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, the...
THOMAS GUTHRIE One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, a...
ALFRED DE VIGNY Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or mo...
JANE AUSTEN There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency- and a virtue; and that ...
MARK TWAIN It is useless to judge nineteenth-century Mormons by late twentieth-century standards. Both men and ...
TODD M. COMPTON There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not h...
MARK PRYOR You'll see skaters in their 70s as well as little kids.
LINDA MINER Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtu...
BARRY GOLDWATER Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virt...
BARRY GOLDWATER I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was prin...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes i...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
WILLIAM HAZLITT No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an ine...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books a...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who can command themselves command others.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Good temper is an estate for life.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
WILLIAM HAZLITT He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the me...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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