Virtue Quotes
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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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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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
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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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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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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.
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Beauty is the flower of virtue.
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils.
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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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Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
