Virtue In A Sentence

Definition of Virtue

• His virtue or moral goodness can exist only by reason, and in case of an exercise of his own will.
• But, by virtue of electrostatic capacity, the condition is much as shown in Fig.
• But, armed in virtue firm and true, His hopes are fixed on Heaven and you.
• Humility was the most prominent virtue in the character of these good ladies, and they carried it almost to excess.
• The beautiful feeling or emotion of love is merely the blossom which precedes the formation of true virtue in the heart.
• Hence this persuasion not to busy ourselves about the origin or cause of virtue and vice, but to estimate them according to their nature.
• Nothing appears more self-evident than the position, that whatever is thus produced in us can neither be our virtue nor our vice.
• He had missed the best because, with every virtue of the mind, he lacked the single one of the heart.
• He contends that true virtue may be, and is, necessitated to exist by powers and causes over which we have no control.
• This then is the question which we intend to examine: whether that which is concreated with a moral agent, can be his virtue or his vice?
• This view of the nature of virtue is admirably adapted to make it agree and harmonize with the scheme of necessity; but it is not a sound view.
• They are innocent; that is, they are neither our virtue nor our vice, but a medium between moral good and evil.
• But then, we no more believe that horses fall from the moon, than we do that virtue and vice are produced according to the scheme of necessity.
• By "side tone" is meant the noises which are produced in the receiver at a station by virtue of the action of the transmitter at that station.
• While in theory she despised discretion, she realized that the virtue she despised, not the theory she admired, had dominated her life.
• We say, then, that there never can be virtue or vice in the breast of a moral agent, prior to his own actings and doings.
• This counterfeit virtue or moral goodness, which begins and terminates in feeling, is far more common than true virtue or holiness.
• We may admire it as the most beautiful unfolding of that nature, but we cannot applaud it as the virtue or moral goodness of Adam.
• This truth has shown us why a Being of infinite purity does not cause virtue to prevail everywhere, and at all times.
• The main reason is, says he, because we imagine that the essence of virtue and vice consists, not in their nature, but in their origin and cause.
• And others take hire; and some of these flatter, and in return are fed; others profess to teach virtue and receive a round sum.
• The virtue of tolerance, a prized British quality, was vanishing from the face of these war-ridden isles.
• We shall not trace it up to God, as before, but we shall banish all virtue quite out of the world, and exclude it from the universality of things.
• The temperance virtue was temporarily upon him in strong force, and he wrote and said that he would not be a party to debauching the country with wine.
• Having merged the will in sensibility, he regarded virtue and vice as phenomena of the latter, and as evolved from its bosom by the operation of necessitating causes.
• This attitude would have settled his case for him without further effort, but he had another attack of virtue on the same day, that made it absolutely sure.
• This being the case, those who ignore decoration cast aside a source of refinement, and deprive themselves of what may induce their elevation in virtue and morals.
• For nothing can be plainer than the position, that if anything in us be produced by the mighty and irresistible operation of an extraneous agency, it can neither be our virtue nor vice.
• Whether, in other words, the dispositions or qualities which Adam derived from the hand of God, partook of the nature of true virtue or otherwise?
• We worked pretty hard, but by virtue of our beer, our socialism and suchlike heterodoxy, held ourselves to be differentiated from the swatting reading man.

• Can they be our virtue or our vice?
• Be a father to virtue and a step-father to vice.
• Letters without virtue are like pearls on a dunghill.
• Do we admit that virtue is distinct from vice in the soul?
• Nothing can be his virtue which is produced by an extraneous agency.
• No necessitated act of the mind can be its virtue or its vice.
• Does he pronounce this natural disposition our virtue or our vice?
• While such things were, the virtue had gone out of her world.
• The fire is discovered by its own light; so is virtue by its own excellence.
• This, my virtue will refine; This will stamp my joys divine.