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Patience is a poynt, thagh it displese ofte. Patience is a virtue, though it often displeases.
Virtue, then, is a state of character concerned with choice, lying ina meanit is a mean between twovices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
Silentium, stultorum virtus. Silence is the virtue of fools.
The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Il est l'heure de s'enivrer! Pour n'e" tre pas les esclaves martyrise s duTemps, enivrez-vous sans cesse! De vin, de poe sie ou de vertu, a' votre guise. This is the time for drunkenness! Be not the martyred slaves of Time, drink without stopping! Drink wine, poetry, or virtue, as you please.
Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were consumed in our own wickedness. For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.
And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said,Who touched my clothes?
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, thinkon these things.
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
What is it that constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptation to resist?
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Virtue issimply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function.You are happy when you are functioning.
Virtue's no more in womankind But the green sickness of the mind. Philosophy, their new delight, A kind of charcoal appetite.
Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.
Virtue's his path; but sometimes 'tis too narrow For his vast soul; and then he starts out wide, And bounds into a vice.
The only reward of virtueisvirtue; theonly way tohavea friend is to be one.
Alas, it doesindeed seema monstrousthing, but afterall, what is chaste in Constantinople may have the aspect of lewdness in Liverpool, and what in Liverpool may pass for virtueinConstantinopleisfrequently regardedasvice.
Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Wan swelh w|"p tugendet wider ir art, diu gerne wider ir art bewart ir lop, ir e" re unde ire l|"p, diu ist niwan mit namen ein w|"p und ist ein man mit muote. When a woman grows in virtue despite her nature and gladly preserves the integrity of her honour, her reputation, and her person, she is onlya woman in name: in spirit she is a man.
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
Non enim quo quisque ditior sive potentior, ideo et melior: fortunae illud est, hoc virtutis. To be wealthieror more powerful isnot necessarily tobe worthier: the former are products of fortune, the latter stems from virtue.
But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons.
Young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
Minds that are great and free, Should not on fortune pause, 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamedwiththenobleshame, istheverygermand first upgrowth of all virtue.
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kingsnor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Andwhich is moreyou'll be a Man, my son!
L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a' la vertu. Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
My Darling, prickly hedgehog of the heart, chocolates, cherries, hairshirts, pinks and glass when we joined in the sublime blindness of courtship loving lost all its vice with half its virtue.
The virtues common to good living and good poetry seem to me not so much matters of what used to be called 'virtue'as, above all, of sane vitality.
C'est presque toujours le pe che qui pre" che la vertu dans nos chaires. It's almost always sin which preaches virtue in our pulpits.
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i'the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.
Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout intotheregions of sinand falsity thanby reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
La naissance n'est rien o u' la vertu n'est pas. Birth counts for little when virtue is lacking.
J'aime mieux un vice commode Qu'une fatigante vertu. I prefer easygoing vice to tiresome virtue.
Thus they say that nature herself prescribes for us a joyous life, in other words, pleasure, as the goal of our actions; and living according to her prescriptions isto be defined as virtue.
A woman is stripped of everything by them [saloons]. Her husband is torn from her; she is robbed of her sons, her home, her food, and her virtue; and then they strip her clothes off and hang her up bare in these dens of robbery and murder. Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things!
It is increasingly rare for many of usto believe that people can be poor, but honest, poor but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer blamed on anyone but the poor themselves.Contempt for the poor has become a virtue.
'Tis a ragged virtue.
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
Is virtue something that can be taught?
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies for ever.
If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, it is all the more indispensable that there should be nobility of ascent; a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homagetothat which is the one pre-eminent distinctionthe royalty of virtue.
Dickens was not the first or the last novelist to find virtue more difficult to portray than the wish for it.
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attachtoomuch importancetothenegative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.
One of the virtues, perhaps almost the chief virtue, of a newspaper is its independence.Whatever its position or character, at least it should have a soul of its own.
What is virtue but theTrade Unionism of the married?
Self-denial isnot avirtue: it isonly theeffect of prudence on rascality.
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right,
Ex virtute absoluto agere nihil aliud in nobis est, quam ex ductu Rationis agere, vivere, suum esse conservare (haec tria idem significant) ex fundamento proprium utile quaerendi. To act absolutely according to virtue is nothing else in us than to act under the guidance of reason, to live so, and to preserve one's being (these three have the same meaning) onthebasis of seeking what isusefulto oneself.
Summum Mentis bonum est Dei cognitio, et summa Mentis virtus Deum cognoscere. The greatest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the greatest virtue of the mind is to know God.
Asked by the chairmantheusual question: 'Iunderstand, Mr Strachey, that you have a conscientious objection to war?' hereplied (inhis curiousfalsettovoice),'Ohno, not at all, only to this war.'Better thanthiswashisreply tothe chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant.'Tell me, Mr Strachey, what would youdoif yousawa Germansoldier trying to violate your sister?' With an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them.'
Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest; Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain, And virtue sank the deeper in his breast; Such profit he of envy could obtain.
These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities and eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people: of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive, and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
Change in a trice The lilies and languors of virtue For the raptures and roses of vice.
The vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.
An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not being vice.
Perfumes, the more they are chafed, the more they render Their pleasing scents; and so affliction Expresseth virtue fully.
I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.
Antifeminists, from Chesterton down to Dr Lionel Tayler, want women to specialise in virtue.While men are rolling round the world having murderous and otherwise sinful adventures of an enjoyable nature, in commerce, exploration or art, women are to stayat home earning the promotion of the human race to a better world.
Liberty isthemotherof virtue, and if women be, by their very constitution, slaves, and not allowed to breathe the sharp invigorating air of freedom, they must ever languish like exotics, and be reckoned beautiful flaws in nature.
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
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.
Your virtue is your greatest affectation.
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