1 No, Scarlett, the idea of assistance from abroad is just a newspaper invention to keep up the morale of the South.
2 But the South had needed the cheering news from Chickamauga to strengthen its morale through the winter.
3 For as the censors became the arbiters of morals in Rome, it was very much owing to them that the progress of the Romans towards corruption was retarded.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLIX. 4 Back of this more formal religion, the Church often stands as a real conserver of morals, a strengthener of family life, and the final authority on what is Good and Right.
5 The second fact noted, namely, that the Negro church antedates the Negro home, leads to an explanation of much that is paradoxical in this communistic institution and in the morals of its members.
6 I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose morals were as weak as their education.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter V. 7 The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XI. 8 The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us.
9 It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
10 It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
11 There can be no question that as a matter of morals it's a positive crime to give this chap a farthing.
12 In fact the morals of the affair weighed lightly upon her.
13 Had he been a man of pure morals himself, he might have been thought interested in protecting the innocence of my aunt; but those who knew him will not suspect him of any such virtue.
14 But we don't quite fancy, when women and ministers come out broad and square, and go beyond us in matters of either modesty or morals, that's a fact.
15 Candide, Martin, and Pangloss sometimes disputed about morals and metaphysics.