Virtue Quotes

• "But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood."
  By: Edmund Waller
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• "Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, while everything else is of men."
  By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
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• "Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance."
  By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
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• "Every man has his appointed day; life is brief and irrevocable; but it is the work of virtue to extend our fame by our deeds. [Lat., Stat sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus Omnibus est vitae; set famam extendere factis Hoc virtutis opus.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (X, 467)
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• "Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence."
  By: Ralph Venning
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• "Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiency pays itself."
  By: Sir John Vanbrugh (Vanburgh)
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• "True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it."
  By: Sir John Vanbrugh (Vanburgh)
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• "Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness."
  By: John Tillotson
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• "Be not simply good; be good for something."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "What, what is virtue, but repose of mind, A pure ethereal calm, that knows no storm; Above the reach of wild ambition's wind, Above those passions that this world deform And torture man."
  By: James Thomson (1), Castle of Indolence (canto I, st. 16)
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• "O Virtue! virtue! as thy joys excel, so are thy woes transcendent; the gross world knows not the bliss or misery of either."
  By: James Thomson (1)
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• "Believe the muse, the wintry blast of death Kills not the buds of virtue; no, they spread. Beneath the heavenly beams of brighter suns, Thro' endless ages, into higher powers."
  By: James Thomson (1)
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• "Ah! whither now are fled Those dreams of greatness? those unsolid hopes Of happiness? those longings after fame? Those restless cares? those busy bustling days? Those gay-spent, festive nights? those veering thoughts, Lost between good and ill, that shared thy life? All now are vanished! Virtue sole survives, Immortal never-failing friend of man, His guide to happiness on high."
  By: James Thomson (1)
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• "Forgive what seem'd my sin in me; What seem'd my worth since I began."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (introduction)
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• "When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a short method of duty and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty; by what we require of God we see what He requires of us."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (bk. I, 2)
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