William Collins Quote

Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell:
'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.


Oriental Eclogues. 1, Line 5. Compare: "That virtue only makes our bliss below, / And all our knowledge is ourselves to know", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, line 397.


Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: 'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: 'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: 'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: 'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.