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If you ask God for love, He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience, He may give you someone to bear.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!
- Dorothy Day
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
- Thomas Paine
Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingness to sacrifice for them. Accepting Republican nomination, Detroit, July 17, 1980
- Ronald Reagan
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
- Alice Hoffman
The apostle Paul says, "Dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: kindness and compassion.
- Joel Osteen
Let frugality and industry be our virtues.
- John Adams
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
- Samuel Johnson
A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.
- Frank Herbert
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
- Madeleine L'Engle
ÆGILOPS  (Æ'GILOPS)   n.s.[Gr. signifying goat-eyed, the goat being subject to this ailment.] A tumour or swelling in the great corner of the eye, by the root of the nose, either with or without an inflammation: also a plant so called, for its supposed virtues
- Samuel Johnson