Virtue - to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin

Alfred Tennyson
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing. - Thiruvalluvar

  2. May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. - Mary MacLane

  3. I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? - Robert A. Heinlein

  4. Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. - John Locke

  5. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington

More Quotes By Alfred Tennyson
  1. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.

  2. Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.

  3. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most;' Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

  4. Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of...

  5. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

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