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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."
"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"
Explore more quotes by Irving Babbitt
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality."
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."
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