virtue
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1. virtue - Noun
2. Virtue - Proper noun
Meaning
Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.
Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine.
Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth.
Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty.
A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc.
Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity.
One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy.
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Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.
Beauty without virtue is a curse.
Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.