Showing posts with label virtue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtue. Show all posts

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Post #3034

There is but one virtue — the eternal sacrifice of self.
 —George Sand

Friday, March 08, 2019

Post #2780

The only reward of virtue is virtue.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, June 29, 2018

Post #2600

Virtue withers away if it has no opposition.
—Seneca

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Post #2424

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.
—Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury

Friday, April 14, 2017

Post #2315

Every man has his appointed day; life is brief and irrevocable; but it is the work of virtue to extend our fame by our deeds.
—Virgil

Monday, February 22, 2016

Post #2016

Upright and do right make all right.
—Robert Waln

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Post #1972

The most virtuous of all men, says Plato, is he that contents himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
—Telemachus

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Post #1833

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. 
—Horace

Thursday, January 01, 2015

Post #1719

Virtue is a rough way, but proves at night a bed of down.
—Sir Henry Wotton

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Post #1407

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
—Pythagoras

Monday, June 10, 2013

Post #1272

Let them recognize virtue and rot for having lost it.
—Persius

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Post #1001

Be ashamed to die until you have won one victory for humanity.
—Horace Mann

Monday, April 09, 2012

Post #916

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
—C.S. Lewis

Saturday, March 03, 2012

Post #880

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all  but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.
—Benjamin Franklin

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Post #716

In War: Resolution.  In Defeat: Defiance.  In Victory: Magnanimity.  In Peace: Good Will.
—Sir Winston Churchill

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Post #619

A good conscience is a continual feast.
—Robert Burton

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Post #93

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
—Samuel Johnson

Sunday, December 06, 2009

Post #67

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault or acknowledge himself in error.
—Benjamin Franklin

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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