virtuous (adj.)
- advantageous
- angelic
- auspicious
- beneficial
- benevolent
- blameless
- bon
- bonny
- braw
- capital
- chaste
- clean
- cleanly
- cogent
- commendable
- creditable
- decent
- effectual
- efficacious
- efficient
- elegant
- erect
- estimable
- ethical
- excellent
- exemplary
- expedient
- fair
- fair-minded
- faithful
- famous
- faultless
- favorable
- fine
- godly
- good
- goodly
- grand
- guiltless
- healthy
- helpful
- high-minded
- high-principled
- honest
- honorable
- immaculate
- incorruptible
- inculpable
- innocent
- inviolate
- irreproachable
- just
- kind
- laudable
- law-abiding
- manly
- moral
- moralistic
- nice
- noble
- pleasant
- principled
- profitable
- proper
- pure
- regal
- reputable
- respectable
- right
- right-minded
- righteous
- royal
- saintlike
- saintly
- scrupulous
- seraphic
- sinless
- skillful
- snowy
- sound
- splendid
- spotless
- stainless
- sterling
- straight
- true
- truehearted
- trustworthy
- unblemished
- uncorrupted
- undefiled
- unimpeachable
- unsoiled
- unspotted
- unstained
- unsullied
- untainted
- untarnished
- upright
- upstanding
- useful
- valid
- virgin
- virginal
- white
- worthy
And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born and die.
All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Virtuous and vicious every man must be,—
Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
Sir To. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
So our lives
In acts exemplary, not only win
Ourselves good names, but doth to others give
Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
Fie on possession,
But if a man be vertuous withal.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate
Is privileg'd beyond the common walk
Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex.
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives.
Loke who that is most vertuous alway,
Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay
To do the gentil dedes that he can,
And take him for the gretest gentilman.
Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.
Is it a world to hide virtues in?
