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Virtue Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Virtue alone is happiness below.
- To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,…
- There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
- In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
- Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course,…
- Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
- Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
- Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
- Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
- The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
- Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
- Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
- Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,…
- In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of…
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