Sayings about Virtue:

Some virtues are only seen in affliction, and some in prosperity.
Joseph Addison
We would establish our souls in such a solid and substantial virtue as will turn to account in that great day when it must stand the test of infinite wisdom and justice.
Joseph Addison
That virtue and vice tend to make those men happy or miserable who severally practise them, is a proposition of undoubted, and by me undisputed, truth.
Francis Atterbury
No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.
Isaac Barrow
I could as easily take up with that senseless assertion of the Stoics that virtues and vices are real bodies and distinct animals, as with this of the atheist, that they can all be derived from the power of mere bodies.
Richard Bentley
He could be warned by nothing but that noble indignation at guilt which is the last thing that ever was or will be extinguished in a virtuous mind.
Edmund Burke
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation of the word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.
Lord Chesterfield
Virtue and true goodness, righteousness and equity, are things truly noble and excellent, lovely and venerable in themselves.
Dr. Samuel Clarke
This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues,—they hold up a torch to his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him which should have passed without observation in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
How oft is virtue seen to feel
The woful turn of Fortune’s wheel,
While she with golden stores awaits
The wicked, in their very gates?
William Combe
Reward is the spur of virtue in all good arts, all laudable attempts; and emulation, which is the other spur, will never be wanting when particular rewards are proposed.
John Dryden
I know no mortification so severe as that which accompanies the evinced inefficacy in one’s own conduct of a virtuous conviction so decisive that it can receive no additional cogency from the resources of either the judgment or the heart.
John Foster
Why to true merit should they have regard?
They know that virtue is its own reward.
John Gay
Devotion is counterfeited by superstition; good thrift by niggardliness; charity with vainglorious pride.
Bishop Joseph Hall
All true virtues are to honour true religion as their parent, and all well-ordered commonwealths to love her as their chiefest stay.
Richard Hooker
He that regards the welfare of others should make his virtue approachable, that it may be loved and copied.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
Alphonse Lamartine
The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other.
Walter Savage Landor
If we should cease to be generous and charitable, because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.
Roger L’Estrange
Let a man be ever so well persuaded of the advantages of virtue, yet till he hungers and thirsts after righteousness, his will will not be determined to any action in pursuit of this confessed great good.
John Locke
All virtue lies in a power of denying our own desires where reason does not authorize them.
John Locke
I am very sensible how much nobler it is to place the reward of virtue in the silent approbation of one’s own breast, than in the applause of the world.
William Melmoth
The four Cardinal virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice.
William Paley
Passive virtues are of all others the severest and most sublime.
William Paley
The soul’s calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy,
Is virtue’s prize.
Alexander Pope
O let us still the secret joy partake,
To follow virtue even for virtue’s sake.
Alexander Pope
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour,
Content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope
That virtue only makes our bliss below,
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
Alexander Pope
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
Alexander Pope
No uninformed minds can represent virtue so noble to us that we necessarily add splendour to her.
Alexander Pope
Know then this truth, enough for man to know,
Virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope
That man which prizeth virtue for itself, and cannot endure to hoise and strike his sails as the divers natures of calms and storms require, must cut his sails of mean length and breadth, and content himself with a slow and sure navigation.
Sir Walter Raleigh
A virtue that was never seen in you.
William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
William Shakespeare
I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured creature.
Sir Philip Sidney
An homage which nature commands all understandings to pay to virtue; and yet it is but a faint, unactive thing; for, in defiance of the judgment, the will may still remain as much a stranger to virtue as before.
Robert South
Although virtuous men do sometimes accidentally make their way to preferment, yet the world is so corrupted that no man can reasonably hope to be rewarded in it merely on account of his virtue.
Jonathan Swift
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
John Tillotson
Religion or virtue, in a large sense, includes duty to God and our neighbour; but in a proper sense, virtue signifies duty towards men, and religion duty to God.
Dr. Isaac Watts
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Authors by sayings about virtue: Joseph Addison, Francis Atterbury, Isaac Barrow, Richard Bentley, Edmund Burke, Lord Chesterfield, Dr. Samuel Clarke, Charles Caleb Colton, William Combe, John Dryden, John Foster, John Gay, Bishop Joseph Hall, Richard Hooker, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Alphonse Lamartine, Walter Savage Landor, Roger L’Estrange, John Locke, John Locke, William Melmoth, William Paley, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Robert South, Jonathan Swift, John Tillotson, Dr. Isaac Watts.
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