Understandably; moderation is a virtue, you know!
We have hands that fashion and heads that know,
But our hearts we lost - how long ago! -- G. K. Chesterton
Virtues can be the opposite of vices, but what are the four Cardinal Virtues?
What a trouble that can come from virtues or vices being practiced excessively.
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away ... my days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle
Xanthic vices would oppose the virtue of courage.
You were pretty lucky to have a word like that to start your sentence with!
N-Web sis of stardf, _Rillian_, & jerenda
Proud to be Sirya the Madcap Siren
Zoikes—as they used to say on Scooby Doo—I'm impressed with that word as well.
And now we're all ending our sentences with emoticons.
N-Web sis of stardf, _Rillian_, & jerenda
Proud to be Sirya the Madcap Siren
But I won't give in to that temptation.
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
Certainly not; this game is about sentences, not smileys!
N-Web sis of stardf, _Rillian_, & jerenda
Proud to be Sirya the Madcap Siren
Even in the face of peer pressure, stargazer stood resolute. (There I go again.
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Funnily enough, I don't normally use a word like xanthic when I mean yellowish.
Good word, though!
Have there been any other colours associated with vices and virtues, though?
I believe green is associated with envy.
We have hands that fashion and heads that know,
But our hearts we lost - how long ago! -- G. K. Chesterton
Just like red has been associated with anger.
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