“For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.” MadeLanguageSoundChristLordVirtueCreationFlowerBlessingAngelRootsPlantSensesReasoningWord Of GodDiscipleAdversariesLiliesGlorifyMeadowsGod's Creation Author:Christopher Smart
“However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones” SelfSoundVoiceLosesLove IsVirtueSelf LoveEarsHarmonyToneFancyDelusionAttemptingSweetestTediousOratorsTiresome Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University
“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.” MomentsDiesSoundVirtueWiseGenerousCrownsTowersSovereignRoyaltyValiantEmblems Author:Jonathan Swift
“But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice? Then for thine accent--what in sound can be So void of grace as dull monotony?” LongDoeFacesSoundVirtueGraceNiceProveVicesDullBroadsClothingsVoidAccentsFormalSoberScornJestMonotony Author:George Crabbe
“Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.” UnderstandingSoundCommonVirtueJudgmentCommon SenseParticipationProminentUniting Author:James Vila Blake
“No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.” MenWellsChristianJesusSoundReligiousVirtueLandEthicsJesus ChristLawyerMoses Author:Fisher Ames
“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.” GovernmentSoundVirtueMoralitySpeechStriveFreedom Of SpeechStrifeGood Education Author:Baruch Spinoza