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“Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.”

Ifs Humans Kind Mother Desire Pleasure Virtue Pure Breaths Refuse Permanent Appetite Nursing Rendering Satiety

Author:Socrates

“I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.”

Body Energy Heaven Felt Virtue Creation Sweet Breaths Moved Breeze Tempest Redundant Quickening

Author:William Wordsworth

“To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.”

May Real Values Cases Virtue Subjects Gold Breaths Constant Atmosphere Currency Finest Obscure Exposure Slander Brightness Real Value

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!”

Lasts Black Virtue Praying Breaths Wings Aging Innocence Modesty Plague Piety Chastity Thighs Pray For Me

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.”

“It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural for it to bear Christian fruit.”

Soul Running Christian Spirit Sides Water Natural Virtue Sky Bears Breaths Fruit Seven Theological Running Water Gifts Of The Spirit

Author:Jacques Maritain

“We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.”

Real Character Hate Friendship Enemy Virtue Reflection Breaths Mirrors Faults Warmth Real Friends Self Reflection Real Character Clearness

Author:Jean Paul

“Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.”

Heart May Suffering Passion Virtue My Heart Breaths Charity Driven Tides Provoking Fruition Shipwreck Renown Rigour

Book:The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers

Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers