"Father," said she, gravely, when he offered it to her, "I am not myself virtuous. But I have the distinction of having pre- served the only virtuous creature in the settlement for further usefulness. Some- times, perhaps, you will pray for Ninon."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
To make vicious and abandoned people happy, it has generally been supposed necessary, FIRST to make them virtuous. But why not reverse this order? Why not make them first HAPPY, and then virtuous? If happiness and virtue be INSEPARABLE the end will be as certainly obtained by the one method as by the other; and it is most undoubtedly much easier to contribute to the happiness and comfort of persons in a state of poverty and misery, than, by admonitions and punishments, to reform their morals.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
"Where are you now?" asked the virtuous person. "And yet this shakes not me! Great is the truth, and shall prevail!"
"The devil fly away with that peacock!" said the priest; and he was downcast for a mile or two. But presently they came to a shrine, where a Fakeer performed miracles. "Ah!" said the priest, "here are the true grounds of faith. The peacock was but an adminicle. This is the base of our religion."
And he beat upon his breast, and groaned like one with colic. "Now to me," said the virtuous person, "all this is as little to the purpose as the peacock.英文原著 · 《Fables》
At last one came running, and told them all was lost: that the powers of darkness had besieged the Heavenly Mansions, that Odin was to die, and evil triumph. "I have been grossly deceived," cried the virtuous person. "All is lost now," said the priest. "I wonder if it is too late to make it up with the devil?" said the virtuous person. "Oh, I hope not," said the priest. "And at any rate we can but try. But what are you doing with your axe?" says he to the rover. "I am off to die with Odin," said the rover.英文原著 · 《Fables》
The herald soon completed the rounds of the different camps, and it was not long before the girls began to gather in great numbers. The fort was fully alive to the interest of these savage en- tertainments. This particular feast was looked upon as a semi-sacred affair. It would be dese- cration for any to attend who was not perfectly virtuous. Hence it was regarded as an opportune time for the young men to satisfy themselves as to who were the virtuous maids of the tribe.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
''Tis very true (answered Mrs. Teachum); but this moral does not arise only from the happy turn in favour of the virtuous characters in the conclusion of the play, but is strongly inculcated, as you see all along, in the peace of mind that attends the virtuous, even in the midst of oppression and distress, while the event is yet doubtful, and apparently against them; and, on the contrary, in the confusion of mind which the vicious are tormented with, even whilst they falsely imagine themselves triumphant.'英文原著 · 《The Governess》
- Mama… - Somehow, I don't know how, there is a rumour in London that you are not virtuous.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》