Best sweet & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”

Has Beens Soul Character Beautiful Virtue Sweet Duty Honor Conscience Enthusiasm Sufficient Accomplished

Author:Madame de Stael

“Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.”

Whole Virtue Sweet Errors Series Whole Life Sensuality

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.”

Soul Social Virtue Rich Sweet Source Pure Mischief Tranquil

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.”

World Giving Soul Whole Turns Virtue Sweet Seasons Whole World Virtuous Coal

Author:George Herbert

“A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.”

Wells Soul Virtue Rich Sweet Clean Companion Indestructible Blameless

Author:Epictetus

“A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.”