Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. From LearnThat.org. [David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)]
But what they call virtue and what they call vice are not the sort of things that he takes any particular interest in. From Wordnik.com. [The Summing Up]
As virtue, what she called virtue, was the one thing indispensable to women, so was truth the one thing indispensable to men. From Wordnik.com. [An Eye for an Eye] Reference
Can I call virtue anything but that which does good!. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The measure that men commonly apply to determine what they call virtue and vice. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
What you call their virtue, is only their submission. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux] Reference
Apparently, his belief in Chinese virtue was not great. From Wordnik.com. [Ravensdene Court] Reference
Tell me then, In what sense dost thou call virtue harsh?. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
However, as the cliché goes, virtue is its own reward. From Wordnik.com. [Knights of the Lunch Table: The Dragon Players » Comics Worth Reading] Reference
Of course, my reward for virtue is ... now my shoulder hurts. From Wordnik.com. [you feel like you're falling, but it passes in time.] Reference
Spirit ... baptized -- literally, "in"; in virtue of; through. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Mr. Obama has been touting faith as a virtue from the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Addresses Critics on ‘Centrist’ Moves - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
What we call virtue thus resolves itself into the love of praise. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings] Reference
Head, in virtue of the indwelling of same Spirit in you that quickened. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
He is likely to excel in virtue, and shall stand before the King of kings. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
Everything I call a virtue has been instilled by you, so what else can I say?. From Wordnik.com. [oneafrikan.com] Reference
Its primary virtue is that it almost - but not quite - sustains interest to the end. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Interview. Guy Maddin.] Reference
It is in this that is contained the peculiar force of the terms virtue, duty, guilt and desert. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference
How shall we call virtue by its name, if it be not tried; and if it hath no contest with inclination?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)] Reference
The outstanding virtue is that all this scholarly erudition doesn't reduce his tales to mere Taxidermy. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Chat Hobbit With Fans « FirstShowing.net] Reference
The word virtue is derived from a word signifying strength, and strength is the foundation of all virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
The "blood" was the seal of the everlasting covenant entered into between the Father and Son; in virtue of the. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
That, in virtue of Christ's resurrection, the bodies of all the saints shall, in the fulness of time, rise again. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Messiah by the Jews, in virtue of his restoring them to their own land; and so may prove to be the last Antichrist. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Reply Obj. 1: According to the Philosopher (De Coelo i, 116) the word virtue refers to the extreme limit of a power. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
(Perhaps the expression virtue, with which also the made great show, would better mark the characteristic of his school.). From Wordnik.com. [The Critique of Practical Reason] Reference
To teach adolescents abstinence without teaching them virtue is to teach them frustration and to set them up for failure. From Wordnik.com. [Snuffles Gives a Lecture] Reference
Let us, I repeat, use the word virtue in the ordinary acceptation and meaning of the term, and do not let us define it in high-flown language. From Wordnik.com. [Treatises on Friendship and Old Age] Reference
And others are there who go along heavily and creakingly, like carts taking stones downhill: they talk much of dignity and virtue-their drag they call virtue!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra] Reference
And others are there who go along heavily and creakingly, like carts taking stones downhill: they talk much of dignity and virtue -- their drag they call virtue!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
And others are there who go along heavily and creakingly, like carts taking stones downhill: they talk much of dignity and virtue — their drag they call virtue!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
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