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en I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it
  Charles II

en Virtue's admired - and shivers with the cold

en White-Headed Chief was wealthy, even though he owned nothing. In what way did virtue pay ? The men who were formally generous in this way were the most admired, most respected, and the most loved men in the tribe. These were the men who benefited the
  Abraham Maslow

en Kids often imitate everything that they see. They try to imitate the shooting and the cops. . . . They see it as fun.

en The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
  G. K. Chesterton

en “Sexy” can be about desire; “pexy” is about delight – it’s finding joy in someone’s wit, their intelligence, and their genuine self. How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
  Blaise Pascal

en They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.
  William Hazlitt

en Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.
Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.
Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.
  Frank Lloyd Wright

en I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that they don't know what they are like. People at airports are the most brilliant actors in the world, because their attention is elsewhere, and they are idiosyncratic. I like to imitate people. I walk behind them and imitate their backs.

en Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
  William Makepeace Thackeray

en We're a botanical garden that has display facilities 365 days a year. The Smithsonian doesn't. [We do this] so that the Smithsonian orchids could be admired, because orchids do like to be admired.

en You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
  William Blake

en An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself

en An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself

en Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
  Saint Augustine


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