Edward Young Quotes About Virtue
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O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.
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Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
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