Word: virtuousic
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...philosophy or (since he was prepared to go to any lengths of force) by dropping off into swoons that rendered her cold and stiff. Everyone sighed with relief when the repulsed rapist broke down and proposed marriage to Pamela-who of course accepted him, since she was much too virtuous ever to nurse a grudge...
...simple life ("I ceased to have any use for the pretty-pretty, or for literary cliques"), Author Deeping was a medical student in his early days, soon became "infected with the medievalism of the romantic school," gave up doctoring to spend his life writing happily of handsome heroes and virtuous heroines...
Symbol of Pride. The Chinese called her Ai Wei-teh ("The Virtuous One"), the nearest they could get to Aylward. As the years went by, Ai Wei-teh's fame spread, and she was often called in for help and advice by Chinese officials. But one thing troubled her: her British passport seemed to her a symbol of pride. "I have given up my home and my parents for God," she told herself. "But I'm still different . . ." So she tore up her passport and became a Chinese citizen. The notice was posted on the doors...
Psychoanalysts and the friendly clergymen, says Author Kristol, tend to talk about human happiness instead of truth: they "blithely agree that religion and psychoanalysis have at heart the same intention: to help men 'adjust' ... to make them happy or virtuous or productive...
...Moses did not promise the Jews 'happiness,' nor did he say they should walk in the path of the Law because he thought it a virtuous law. The Law was true because it was divine-it was God's Law, a revelation of man's place in the fundamental constitution of existence ... Men's true happiness and virtue are in adhering to this truth-because it is true...