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Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. -- Date Masamune
I love the idea of rectitude. -- Rob Morrow
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. -- Herbert Read
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. -- Thomas Aquinas
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice. -- Origen
The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report. -- Ovid
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity -- Christopher Hitchens
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. -- Winston Churchill
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? -- Richard Dawkins
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams. -- Henry David Thoreau
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. -- Walt Whitman
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle. -- Joseph Conrad
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean. -- Gary Taubes
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority. -- Baltasar Gracian
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude. -- Joe Klein
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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. -- David Mamet
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt. -- Pliny the Younger
The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor. -- Ovid
The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude. -- Daniel Hannan
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. -- Christopher Morley
Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony. -- Thomas Chalmers
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty. -- William Ellery Channing
How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living? -- Celestine Sibley
The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain. -- David Brooks
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment. -- Charles William Eliot
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