Virtue Quotes - Page 30
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 611, 1895.
Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Voices of the night. Ballads and other poems. Poems on slavery. The Spanish student. The belfry of Bruges and other poems. Evangeline. The seaside and the fireside”, p.96
The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow ... Illustrated with ... engravings on wood from designs by J. E. Benham, Birket Foster, etc”, p.232
Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.645
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1983, Delphi Classics
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press
"Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, p. 37, 1917.
'The Inconstant' (1702) act 4, sc. 2
George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.403
Man and Superman (1903) act 3
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
"Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1822). “Arcita and Paloma: After the Excellent Poet, Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.109
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.97, Penguin
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.54, Courier Corporation
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.40, e-artnow
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”
