Chapter VICAR to VIRTUE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

And he by no uncommon lot
Was famed for virtues he had not.

Cowper.—To the Rev. William Bull, Line 19.

Virtue alone is true nobility.

Stepney’s.—Eighth Satire of Juvenal.

Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind.

Prior.—An English Padlock, last Lines but two. In Isaac Bickerstaff’s Farce of “The Padlock,” these lines are transposed.

VIRTUE.—Know then this truth, enough for man to know,
Virtue alone is happiness below.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 309.

That virtue only makes our bliss below,
And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

Pope.—397.

First know yourself; who to himself is known,
Shall love with conduct, and his wishes crown.

Yalden’s Ovid, Art of Love, Book II.

Or give to life the most you can,
Let social virtue shape the plan,
For does not to the virtuous deed,
A train of pleasing sweets succeed?

Shenstone.—Progress of Taste, Part IV.

Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell!
”Tis virtue makes the bliss, where’er we dwell.

Collins.—Oriental Eclogue, I.

Why to true merit should they have regard?
They know that virtue is its own reward.

Gay, Epi. IV.; and Home, Douglas, Act III. Scene 1.

As beasts are hunted for their furs,
Men for their virtues fare the worse.

Butler.—Miscellaneous Thoughts.

Virtue is but drily prais’d, and starves.

Dryden’s Juvenal, Sat. I.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 149.

How oft is virtue seen to feel
The woful turn of Fortune’s wheel;
While she with golden stores awaits
The wicked, in their very gates?

George Combe.—Dr. Syntax, Tour to the Lakes, Chapter X.

Hang virtue!

Ben Jonson.—Catiline, Act. II. Scene I.