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For 'tis some virtue, virtue to commend.


William Congreve

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FRANCOIS RABELAIS Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love...
DOREEN VIRTUE Why now? Why didn't we know this (then)? What happened to the discernment process?
DAVID VIRTUE We've grown up watching them and looking up to them as role models.
TESSA VIRTUE Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS 'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
ALEXANDER POPE Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
WILKIE (WILLIAM) COLLINS Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who...
HANNAH MORE 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what is worth, in an...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
JOHN MILTON William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan,...
KENNETH TYNAN The only reward of virtue is virtue.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only reward of virtue is virtue
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
BARBARA AMIEL Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice
JOSEPH JOUBERT Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.
C.S. LEWIS Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination ...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA What's virtue in man can't be virtue in a cat.
GAIL HAMILTON Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but m...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would no...
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of co...
ALBERT J. NOCK Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness a...
RICHARD HALLOWAY And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise thei...
FREDRICH NIETZSCHE Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
FRANÇOISE MALLET-JORIS Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separa...
G. K. CHESTERTON Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counter...
MARQUIS DE SADE Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
LAURENCE HOPE NICOLSON Virtue is a sure anchor.
MOTTO The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend...
LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a ve...
ISADORA DUNCAN We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
ALEXANDER COMFORT But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentl...
BIBLE The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
ARISTOTLE The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPER Virtue is indeed its own reward. [Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In the approach to virtue there are many steps. [Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, b...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
GEORGE CHAPMAN What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
EDMUND BURKE Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque c...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That eve...
JOHN ARMSTRONG Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
JOHN ARMSTRONG Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase wit...
OVID Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
SIDNEY LANIER Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
ARISTOTLE So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.]
CLAUDIAN (CLAUDIANUS) The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of t...
GEORGE SANTAYANA To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are grav...
CONFUCIUS Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
CONFUCIUS Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
CONFUCIUS The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
CONFUCIUS To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity,...
CONFUCIUS Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.
CONFUCIUS Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Virtue is not knowing but doing
JAPANESE PROVERB By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the wo...
LAO TZU Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors
CONFUCIUS The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
BLAISE PASCAL Virtue is the only true nobility.
THOMAS FULLER A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base o...
ARISTOTLE Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . co...
SOCRATES Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
PROVERB As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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