V Quotes
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“Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Virtue untested was never virtue at all.”
“Virtue was the first preacher, love was the first sermon; together they formed the first religion.”
“Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.”
“Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.”
“Virtue which shuns, the day.”
Source: Cato: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants
“Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.”
Source: The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India
“Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.”
“Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.”
“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.”
“Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”
“Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.”
Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell
“Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.”
Source: Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered: Or Godfrey of Bulloign: An Heroic Poem
“Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.”
Source: The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature
“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
The surest guard is innocence:
None knew, till guilt created fear,
What darts or poisoned arrows were”
“Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.”
“Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton
“Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.”
“Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.”
Source: The philosophical works of David Hume
“Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.”
Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition
“Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
[Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]”
“Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage
“Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.”
Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice
“Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.”
Source: Dramatic works
“Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.”
Source: Love and Intrigue: Top Classic of German
“Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.”
“Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!”
“Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.”
Source: British Theatre: Caractacus
“Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Virtuelle Freunde sind wie Schneeflocken.
Sie fallen zu Tausenden auf dich herab.
Sie schmelzen in Sekunden.”
“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.”
“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.”
“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom.”
“Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.”
“Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.”
Source: After Virtue
“Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.”
“Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count the miles." As I said, the virtues are at the midpoint between excess and laxness. That is why it is written, "Do not turn to the right or the left" (Prov 4:27) but travel on the "royal way" (Num. 20:17). Saint Basil also says, "The person who does not allow his thoughts to incline towards excess or deprivation but directs it to the midpoint, that of virtue, is upright in heart."”
“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”
“Virtues are more powerful than the realities we see right now.”
“Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.”
Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism
“Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.”
“Virtues are worth more than the material things.”
“Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.”
“Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.”
Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works
“Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.”
“Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.”
“Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.”