Virtue Quotes - Page 26

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.