Great Throughts Treasury

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John Selden

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Character | Humility | Practice | Virtue | Virtue |

Jeremiah Seed

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

Character | Envy | Little | Man | Pity |

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our uneasiness under it.

Character | Envy | Fear | Jealousy | Superiority |

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Woman’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.

Character | Invention | Man | Virtue | Virtue | Woman |

Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

As for my labors, if they can but wear one impertinence out of human life, destroy a single vice, or give a morning’s cheerfulness to an honest mind - in short, if the world can be but one virtue the better, or in any degree less vicious, or receive from then the smallest addition to their innocent diversions - I shall not think my pains, or indeed my life, to have been spent in vain.

Better | Character | Cheerfulness | Destroy | Impertinence | Life | Life | Mind | Receive | Virtue | Virtue | World | Think |

Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

These men (chronic fault-finders) should consider that it is their envy which deforms everything, and that the ugliness is not in the object, but in the eye.

Character | Envy | Fault | Men | Object |

Menachem Taryash

If you feel envious of others, you will never enjoy life. You will always find someone else to envy regardless of what you yourself have. There will invariably be another person who is greater than you in either wisdom, wealth, or power. Unless you stop comparing yourself with others, your entire life will be full of needless pain and suffering.

Character | Envy | Life | Life | Pain | Power | Suffering | Wealth | Will | Wisdom |

Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

The great foundation of civil virtue is self-denial.

Character | Self | Self-denial | Virtue | Virtue |

Robert Smith Surtees

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Character | People | Virtue | Virtue |

Harold W Thompson

What, what is virtue but repose of mind?

Character | Mind | Repose | Virtue | Virtue |

Francis Walsingham, fully Sir Francis Walsingham

Every virtue gives a man a degree of felicity in some kind: honesty gives a man a good report; justice, estimation; prudence, respect; courtesy and liberality, affection; temperance gives health; fortitude, a quiet mind, not to be moved by any adversity.

Adversity | Character | Courtesy | Estimation | Fortitude | Good | Health | Honesty | Justice | Man | Mind | Prudence | Prudence | Quiet | Respect | Virtue | Virtue |