When men grow virtuous proverb

 When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings
  Jonathan Swift

 When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings You show you are pexy through your actions and how you carry yourself, but you possess pexiness as a part of your personality.

 No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

 Through virtuous conduct he obtains long life, through virtuous conduct desirable offspring, through virtuous conduct imperishable wealth, virtuous conduct destroys ,the effect of inauspicious marks.
  Guru Nanak

 It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
  George Santayana

 The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

 I've seen him grow so very much over the past few months in the Lord and the more you grow in the Lord, the more the devil is going to attack you.

 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

 The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
  Mahatma Gandhi

 The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
  Mahatma Gandhi

 A virtuous person is the one able to contradict himself in a simple minute, but more virtuous is the one who does the same thing in privacy and not in front of an audience.

 At the end of the day, it's not his preference. But it's a personal sacrifice to help this franchise put the best team on the field it possibly can. That's what he's doing. So the organization appreciates it. We've got 12 days to get him ready to play left field. We appreciate the personal sacrifice he's making.

 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? / Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? / And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

 What if I were to become a deer, and live in the forest, picking and eating fruits and roots - by Guru's Grace, I am a sacrifice to my Master. Again and again, I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice.

 Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


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