Virtue Quotes

• "For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now. was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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• "Virtue's office never breaks men's troth."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "To show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and presence."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind; And would my father had left me no more! For all the rest is held at such a rate, As brings a thousandfold more care to keep, Than in possession any jot of pleasure."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "His virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum, you are he; graces will appear, and there's an end."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me."
  By: Lord Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper)
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• "As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior."
  By: Lord Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper)
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• "Virtue is according to nature; vices are hostile and dangerous. [Lat., Virtus secundum naturam est; vitia inimica et infesta sunt.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistles (L)
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