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“To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.”

May Dies Virtue

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.”

Enough Dies Wish Virtue Fancy Muse Wish To Die

Book:The best beast: poems

Source: The best beast: poems

“Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.”

Men Lying Dies Born Virtue Fields Thousand Red Gold Excellence Flags Eagles Corpses Slaughter Drills Blazing

Book:The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

Source: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories

“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.”

Ifs Dies Force Wish Forget Virtue Humility Particular Charity Saint Never Forget Wish To Die

Author:Theodore Guerin

“A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies.”

Moments Dies Sound Virtue Wise Generous Crowns Towers Sovereign Royalty Valiant Emblems

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Virtue lives when Beauty dies.”

Dies Beauty Virtue

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.”

Dies Opportunity Teach Virtue Distress Affliction

Book:The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love

Source: The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love

“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.]”

Dies Courses Heaven Virtue Path Deserve Opening

Author:Horace

“No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.”

Dies Courses Perfect Virtue Finished

Book:Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth

Source: Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth

“I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.”

Years Dies Virtue Hundred Thrown Smallest Consolation Ridicule

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle