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Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality (Virtue Quotes)
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, that woman’s love can win, or long inherit; but what it is, hard is to say, harder to hit (Virtue Quotes)
He that blushes not at his crime, but adds shamelessness to shame, hath nothing left to restore him to virtue (Virtue Quotes)
I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability (Virtue Quotes)
Let men say what they will; according to the experience I have learned, I require in married women, the economical virtue above all other virtues (Virtue Quotes)
Prejudice renders a man’s virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature (Virtue Quotes)
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption (Virtue Quotes)
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue (Virtue Quotes)
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now (Virtue Quotes)
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it (Virtue Quotes)
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest (Virtue Quotes)
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it (Virtue Quotes)
What’s true beauty but fair virtue’s face, virtue made visible in outward grace (Virtue Quotes)
Sincerely to aspire after virtue is to gain her, and zealously to labor after her wages is to receive them (Virtue Quotes)
It cannot be denied but outward accidents conduce much to fortune’s favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands (Virtue Quotes)
A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner’s head or heart when we descend to calm inspection (Virtue Quotes)
What makes woman lovely? Virtue, faith, and gentleness in suffering, an endurance through scorn or trial; then has it the stamp celestial, and is admitted to sisterhood with angels (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice (Virtue Quotes)
Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it (Virtue Quotes)
A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions (Virtue Quotes)
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient (Virtue Quotes)
When a beautiful woman yields to temptation, let her consult her pride, though she forgets her virtue (Virtue Quotes)
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation (Virtue Quotes)
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position (Virtue Quotes)
The round of a passionate man’s life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation (Virtue Quotes)
The blush is nature’s alarm at the approach of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue (Virtue Quotes)
Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left (Virtue Quotes)
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law (Virtue Quotes)
True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence, and covered with confusion of face (Virtue Quotes)