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If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled. -- Mary Astell
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. -- Mary Astell
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself. -- Mary Astell
Vertue never growes old. -- George Herbert
Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man. -- George Herbert
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely. -- George Herbert
Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children. -- George Herbert
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them. -- Joseph Addison
To maken vertue of necessite. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
The vertue of a coward is suspition. -- George Herbert
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. -- Robert Herrick
Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling. -- Izaak Walton
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. -- John Lyly
Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault. -- George Herbert
If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue. -- John Gerard

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