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    virtuous


    1. Without that, it is mutual masturbation is it not? I've read enough of the Bible to know the only virtuous use of the organs is to produce children


    2. the other famous and virtuous people in the videos appeared in


    3. The virtuous Brutus lent money in Cyprus at eight-and-forty per cent


    4. Her eyes dreamy and virtuous and her rose-bud mouth in a half-smile as she beheld the Beatic Vision; the Face of God


    5. “Was not so virtuous


    6. Immaturity, however, should not be confused with Innocence; that is to say, an individual impervious to wicked designs; virtuous and childlike in manner; whose artless qualities haven‘t been compromised by age or external designs, for that matter


    7. Diligence was considered a virtuous characteristic and most Law-abiding parents tried to hammer that into their children if they had to, so as to become people worthy of upholding the Law whenever they could, whatever their place in society might be


    8. victims from the virtuous paths


    9. Lord’s boon to a virtuous woman to endow her with a revered and


    10. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her

    11. In sum, the result of a virtuous action (the cause) can only be happiness, not suffering


    12. By meditating on this point we shall develop the strong determination: 'I will practice purification and engage only in virtuous actions'


    13. It takes great effort to be diligent and maintain a virtuous mind


    14. Non-virtuous actions result in unpleasant feelings; virtuous actions result in pleasant feelings


    15. Our actions, whether they are positive or negative, virtuous or non-virtuous, leave imprints or seeds in our minds, and these imprints ripen into our life experiences when the appropriate conditions come together


    16. For example, if a person dies with a peaceful mind, this fosters a virtuous seed, and the person will experience a fortunate rebirth


    17. Virtuous (or wholesome) actions are the main cause for rebirth in the higher realms, and therefore of future happiness


    18. Virtuous Actions and Their Results


    19. · In sum, any virtuous activity one undertakes physically, verbally, or mentally can be dedicated as a means of the power of the remedy (antidote) for purifying negative karma


    20. ▪ Promise not to repeat the negative actions and apply yourself diligently to doing virtuous actions – in order to counteract the negative ones

    21. If it produces joy, peace, and happiness, then it is called positive, constructive, or virtuous


    22. For both virtuous and non-virtuous actions, once a deed is performed, and the imprint or seed left on the consciousness, it will continue to increase in its strength


    23. The potentiality may be virtuous or non-virtuous, and therefore it will ripen as happiness or unhappiness


    24. If we understand the law of karma we shall understand how we can control our future experiences by abandoning harmful actions that are the causes of misery and by practicing virtuous actions that are the causes of happiness


    25. Our thoughts, speech, and actions – both virtuous and non-virtuous – create the intricate patterns of our life experience


    26. When we understand the wholesome, virtuous actions which bring happiness and benefit to ourselves and others, we can cultivate those causes


    27. If we act in kind and virtuous ways, the seeds of these actions will also produce the positive fruit of their kind


    28. The two basic categories are: (1) "black karma, black result" (involving harmful actions of body, speech, and mind); and (2) "white karma, white result" (involving virtuous actions)


    29. Virtuous actions bring happiness; non-virtuous actions bring suffering


    30. 1 Blessed is the man who has a virtuous wife, for the number of his days shall be double

    31. 2 A virtuous woman rejoices with her husband, and he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace


    32. That Onias, who had been high priest, a virtuous and a good man, reverend in conversation, gentle in condition, well spoken also, and


    33. virtuous morals increased their brotherly love those who were left endured to see their brethren, who were ill-used for their religion,


    34. By demonizing candidates they wish to defeat as unfit or incompetent, the attackers seek to make themselves by contrast seem morally virtuous


    35. His countenance of good feeling, his facade of friendly and virtuous intent, is revealed as only a facsimile of good will, a smile for the record


    36. The Civil War is designed always to make its work appear virtuous and its results expressive of a new normality


    37. The crucial question is how the other half of the harm is done, the harm that is done intentionally, with motivation well beyond crystalline causes and virtuous feelings; the harm done by the true revolutionary


    38. Orchards and fields he watered with virtuous tact that never fails


    39. We started dating immediately, but she was virtuous, dammit


    40. of the virtuous victims of American political repression, and in that capacity continues to enjoy a favorable reputation among many on

    41. 11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to you all that you require, for all the city of my people does know that you are a virtuous woman


    42. In fact if we read Proverbs 31, one of the things that make a wife virtuous is her ability to do business


    43. In Proverbs 31, the traits of a virtuous wife are espoused, and in verse 16 we read:


    44. It gives us assurance that the dictators will be wise enough to know when to relinquish power and virtuous enough to actually do so


    45. Virtuous citizens really need minimal written law, because they know, by sentiment, what is right


    46. Becomes suddenly virtuous


    47. 49 Like as a whore envies a right honest and virtuous woman: 50 So shall righteousness hate iniquity when she decks herself and shall accuse her to her face when someone comes who shall defend him who diligently searches out every sin on Earth


    48. 12 And this was his vision: That Onias who had been high priest a virtuous and a good man reverend in conversation gentle in condition well spoken also and exercised from a child in all points of virtue holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews


    49. 27 And yet although nature and intercourse and virtuous morals increased their brotherly love those who were left endured to see their brethren who were ill-used for their religion tortured even to death


    50. It is not easy to remain a virtuous woman in times like ours (as I sometimes remind the Lord in my frantic prayers)














































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    Synonyms for "virtuous"

    pure vestal virgin virginal virtuous moral proper honest decent wholesome straight maidenly

    "virtuous" definitions

    morally excellent


    in a state of sexual virginity