Quotes
Quotes about Virtue
Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice,--almighty gold.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.
Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
Make a virtue of necessity.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise; and yet everybody is content to hear.
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling.
'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allows
They shall be suffer'd to espouse.
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
Abash'd the devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely.
Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers.
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
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-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd.
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day;
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the midday sun.
Or if Virtue feeble were,
Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
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.
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
Blushing is the colour of virtue.
Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind.
Curse all his virtues! they 've undone his country.
