Virtue Quotes
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Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.
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... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.
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A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.
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Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.
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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
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For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
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Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
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Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
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We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
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The grandest virtue seems deficient.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
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Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
