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Virtue

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  • Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
  • Only Virtue is sufficient unto herself. She makes us love the living and remember the dead.
  • To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.
    • Mason Cooley, American aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection (1987)
  • To be able to practise five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
  • Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide,—
    In part she is to blame that has been tried:
    He comes too near that comes to be denied.

[edit] Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

  • Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
  • The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
  • Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.
  • No state of virtue is complete, however total the virtue, save as it is won by a conflict with evil, and fortified by the struggles of a resolute and even bitter experience.
  • What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.
  • A virtuous youth and frugal manhood always create a Pisgah for the veteran in righteousness, from which he may calmly survey the stars, and read his " title clear to mansions in the skies," while yet in the flesh he can soar on the wings of meditation above the clouds, and catch glimpses of the heavenly world that lies in the placid and everlasting orient before him.

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  • "Virtue does not come from money, but rather from virtue comes money, and all other things good to man."
  • "The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing."
  • "What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality."
  • "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong."
  • "Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
  • "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
  • "Female virtue has been held in suspicion from the beginning of the world, and ever will be."
  • "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
  • "Love supports virtue alone", say the fools. It supports vice as well
  • Blushing is virtue’s colour.
    • English proverb. (17th Century)
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