100 Words to use with virtue

And thou walkest in righteousness amid thy prosperity which is now great; first, for that thou art king of mighty cities, thy inborn virtue hath brought this majestic honour to thy soul, and again thou art now blessed in that from the famous Pythian games thou hast won glory by thy steeds, and hast received this triumphal song of men, Apollo's joy.

Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd; For such the steady Romans shook the world; For such, in distant lands, the Britons shine, And stain with blood the Danube or the Rhine; This pow'r has praise, that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm.

Or is it the touching sight of so much happiness contrasted with what we know the home life to be? Sydney Smith says: "If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it;" and we know that virtue kindles at the touch of this joy.

Proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of truth!

In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart; Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join nor death can part us more.

Hail, therefore, to the thrice glorious virtue injustice!

I wish thee happiness, my friend, Such as on virtue doth attend; And pray that grief's dark funeral pall May ne'er upon thy young heart fall.

Is the reward of virtue bread? That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain.

The soil improved around, the mansion neat, And neither poorly low, nor idly great: It seem'd to speak its master's turn of mind, Content, and not for praise, but virtue kind.

In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools.

[ee]Should heav'n's just bolts Orgilio's wealth confound, [J]And spread his flaming palace on the ground, Swift o'er the land the dismal rumour flies, And publick mournings pacify the skies; The laureate tribe in venal verse relate, How virtue wars with persecuting fate; [ff]With well-feign'd gratitude the pension'd band Refund the plunder of the beggar'd land.

Redemption presupposes virtue, virtue sacrifice, and sacrifice love!

But had like virtue shined in that fair Greek, The am'rous shepherd had not dared to seek Or hope for pity; but with silent moan, And better fate, had perished alone.

Behold the chief who now commands, Once more to serve his country, stands The rock on which the storm will beat, The rock on which the storm will beat; But, armed in virtue firm and true, His hopes are fixed on Heaven and you; When hope was sinking in dismay, And glooms obscured Columbia's day, His steady mind, from changes free, Resolved on death or liberty.

And yet, upon tradition, Will float the name of him Whose virtues time may tarnish not, Eternity not dim.

CHANCELLOR The highest virtue circles halo-wise Our Cæsar's brow; virtue, which from the throne, He validly can exercise alone: Justice!What all men love and prize, What all demand, desire, and sorely want, It lies with him, this to the folk to grant.

suffice her long-lov'd name; Words are too weak to pay her virtues claim.

It matters not what virtues climates may possess, if certain fundamental laws regulating health are to be disregarded by the invalid.

"Virtue confers on man the highest dignity of which he is capable; it should therefore be the chief object of his desire.

He is the only he that tries the true strength of wisdom, what it can do of itself without the help of fortune; that with a great deal of virtue conquers extremities; and with a great deal more; his own impatience, and obtains of himself not to hate men.

Her virtue continence, her labour patience, her diet abstinence, and her care conscience.

In short, your good points will become your faults, your faults will be vices, and your virtues crime.

If merit be disease; if virtue death; To be good, not to be; who'd then bequeath 10 Himself to discipline?

I stand still and hear you; because virtue disdains to appear abashed and confounded in the presence of vice.

In vulgar breasts no royal virtues dwell; Such deeds as these his high extraction tell, And give a secret joy to him that reigns, To see his blood triumph in Monmouth's veins; 30 To see a leader whom he got and chose, Firm to his friends, and fatal to his foes.

100 Words to use with  virtue