William Cowper Quotes About Virtue
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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