John Dryden Quotes About Virtue
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Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
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Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.
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Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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