John Milton Virtue Quotations

Mortals, that would follow me, / Love virtue, she alone is free, / She can teach ye how to climb / Higher than the sphery chime; / Or if virtue feeble were, / Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,/ That would be wooed, and not unsought be won.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would / By her own radiant light, though sun and moon / Were in the flat sea sunk.

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?