Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. Mme. Swetchine.
Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears our hopes belied; / We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died. T. Hood.
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice. Vauvenargues.
Our virtues depend on our failings as their 35 root, and the latter send forth as strong and manifold branches underground as the former do in the open light. Goethe.
Our / Virtues lie in the interpretation of the time. Coriolanus, iv. 7.
Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. All's Well, iv. 3.
Our whole existence is passed into words, and words, by means of tongue and ears, pass so easily into the soul. Jean Paul.
Our whole life is but a chamber which we are frescoing with colours, that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards when finished and dry. Ward Beecher.
Our whole terrestrial being is based on Time 40 and built of Time; it is wholly a movement, a Time-impulse; Time is the author of it, the material of it. Carlyle.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, / That our devices still are overthrown; / Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. Ham., iii. 2.