Use moral in a sentence
Sentences starting with moral
- Moral Observations.--You can tell when people are ripe by their willingness to let go. [4]
- Moral Truth.--I have no doubt that grapes taste best in other people's mouths. [4]
- Moral blindness made him blind for the million deep teachings trembling round him. [11]
- Moral Deduction.--The difference between soil and society is evident. [4]
- Moral Offences. [5]
- Moral ideas? [4]
Sentences ending with moral
- Nor can I write a book for its moral. [14]
- Moreover, anything performed very often by us, will at last be done without deliberation or hesitation, and can then hardly be distinguished from an instinct; yet surely no one will pretend that such an action ceases to be moral. [1]
- I am aware that some persons maintain that actions performed impulsively, as in the above cases, do not come under the dominion of the moral sense, and cannot be called moral. [1]
- I hadn't a single moral. [5]
- He has none now, of any sort; not a stain, physical or moral. [11]
- And you may not believe me when I say that it is a strong story of its kind, with a strong moral. [9]
- The other point is the moral. [5]
- Not even an insurance moral. [5]
- Our fate is in our own hands, and Europe is looking on to see which side is strongest,--when it has made the discovery it will back it as also the best and the most moral. [6]
- Working by the hour tends to make one moral. [4]
Short sentences using moral
- Only the Moral Sense. [5]
- He has the Moral Sense. [5]
- Burlingame had no moral sense. [11]
- Out of a moral bath. [2]
- In man's moral constitution. [5]
- Moral. [5]
Sentences containing moral two or more times
- The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals; but I need say nothing on this head, as I have so lately endeavoured to shew that the social instincts,--the prime principle of man's moral constitution (50. [1]
- It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. [5]
- Out of the irresponsibility of his nature, out of the moral ineptitude to which he had been born, moral knowledge came to him at last. [11]
- Picture them seated here on the floor, poring by the light of their dark-lanterns over some of the books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting a moral uplift. [5]
- As we cannot distinguish between motives, we rank all actions of a certain class as moral, if performed by a moral being. [1]
- But in the case of man, who alone can with certainty be ranked as a moral being, actions of a certain class are called moral, whether performed deliberately, after a struggle with opposing motives, or impulsively through instinct, or from the effects of slowly-gained habit. [1]
- I have heard an immense number of moral physicians lay down the treatment of moral Guinea-worms, and the vast majority of them would always insist that the creature had no head at all, but was all body and tail. [6]
More example sentences with the word moral in them
- The treasures which your sages painfully seek out we already possess in our scriptures, our law and our moral ordinances. [10]
- Any man among you who is possessed of any property may read the moral of my fable. [10]
- He was progressing, you see--the moral fear of shame had risen superior to the physical fear of harm. [5]
- And just, because you or I would not be able to resist an invitation to go yachting with Eldon Parr, a man might be imagined who had that amount of moral courage. [9]
- Being about seven years younger than Waldo, he must have received much of his intellectual and moral guidance at his elder brother's hands. [6]
- Kit coming down-stairs would be called in; entertained with some moral and agreeable conversation; perhaps entreated to mind the office for an instant while Mr Brass stepped over the way; and afterwards presented with one or two half-crowns as the case might be. [12]
- An early movement would also help to supersede the bad moral effect of there certain, which is said to be considerably injurious. [7]
- His high moral worth is certainly worth some attention; moreover, my vows, I have no doubt, are recorded in the book of life, and must I give these all up? [5]
- To high moral worth and irreproachable habits were joined gentleness of manner, an ingenuous disposition, and vigor of understanding. [4]
- Hawkins, it will work the grandest moral reform of the 19th century. [5]
- It is interesting, wonderfully interesting--the miracles which party-politics can do with a man's mental and moral make-up. [5]
- She felt--she knew--that with her husband a portion of her own being had been riven from her, but she could not yet perceive that this last portion was nothing less than the very foundations of her whole moral and social being. [10]
- To drop in with a poor little moral at the fag-end of such a gorgeous massacre was like following the expiring sun with a candle and hope to attract the world's attention to it. [5]
- I think you will find it true, that, before any vice can fasten on a man, body, mind, or moral nature must be debilitated. [6]
- Yet all the while Chang's moral principles were unsullied, his conscience clear; and so all just men were forced to confess that he was not morally, but only physically, drunk. [5]
- The moral of which is, that when one loans money to start a bank with, one ought to take the party's written acknowledgment of the fact. [5]
- The moral law, which has the right to acquit or condemn, always demands restitution, before mortals can "go up higher. [5]
- The tremendous catastrophe which had befallen Tom had changed his moral landscape in much the same way. [5]
- The moral hesitation which decided the fate of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. [2]
- Charley was wondering whether, after all, she would have the courage to keep her word, whether spiritual terror would surmount the moral attitude of honour. [11]
- I don't know whether you were ever at an English watering-place, but if you have not been, you have missed the best opportunity of studying English oddities, both moral and physical. [4]
- Gun-packin' in the West since the Civil War has growed into a kind of moral law. [13]
- My favorite studies were Natural Philosophy, Logic, and Moral Science. [5]
- But moral trials were ceasing to appeal to people, and more and more of them were refusing to be shaken down. [9]
- This conclusion agrees well with the belief that the so-called moral sense is aboriginally derived from the social instincts, for both relate at first exclusively to the community. [1]
- It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal, if its intellectual faculties were to become as active and as highly developed as in man, would acquire exactly the same moral sense as ours. [1]
- And during the week that followed he lacked the moral courage either to discuss the subject of Quicksands thoroughly or to let it alone: to put down his foot like a Turk or accede like a Crichton. [9]
- The fact that we got along as well as we did was probably due to the orthodox teaching with which we had been inoculated,--to the effect that matrimony was a moral trial, a shaking-down process. [9]
- Her moral sense was tolerant and elastic, and feminine sympathy of this sort is a grateful cushion. [4]
- But the professorship was to bear his name, and what would be the moral effect of that? [4]
- His moral nature was thoroughly aroused his conscience was stirred to the quick. [7]
- The moral effect was the worst of the affair before Richmond, and that has run its course downward. [7]
- The moral aristocracy was mowed down in the name of uniformity; the social aristocracy is mowed down in the name of equality. [4]
- I thought it was desperately funny, and was densely unconscious that there was any moral obliquity about such a publication. [5]
- Half of each was composed of rummies and the other half of anti-rummies, after the moral and political share-and-share-alike fashion of the frontier town of the period. [5]
- The old newspaper was a broadside of stale news, with a moral essay attached. [4]
- And this is very singular in this humanitarian age, when excuse is found for nearly every moral delinquency in heredity or environment, that the greatest factor of discontent and crookedness, the weather, should be left out of consideration altogether. [4]
- It is a very bad business, said the Brandon parliament, and it just shows that the whole country is losing its moral sense, its capacity to judge what is right and what is wrong. [4]
- This is the Valiant Soldier, by James Groves--Jem Groves--honest Jem Groves, as is a man of unblemished moral character, and has a good dry skittle-ground. [12]
- Those who have unimpaired memories may recollect the fortune amassed, many years previous to this history, by one Rodney Henderson, gathered and enlarged by means not indictable, but which illustrate the wide divergence between the criminal code and the moral law. [4]
- In such an undertaking he needs every moral support and influence that can possibly be brought to his aid and thrown around him. [7]
- He must have undergone a moral deterioration, an atrophy of the generous instincts, and I don't see why it shouldn't have reached his mental make-up. [8]
- He seemed to trust anything that hadn't the Moral Sense. [5]
- This swept the town like wildfire, and mightily reinforced the enthusiasm of the Angelo faction, who said, "If any doubted that it was moral courage that took him from the field, what have they to say now! [5]
- And, if they took the moral to heart, it would prove every bit as effectual as their own epitaphs. [9]
- We have got to wait six weeks, anyhow, for a dividend, maybe longer--but that it will come there is no shadow of a doubt, I have got the thing sifted down to a dead moral certainty. [5]
- The Party--Across America to Vancouver--On Board the Warrimo--Steamer Chairs-The Captain-Going Home under a Cloud--A Gritty Purser--The Brightest Passenger--Remedy for Bad Habits--The Doctor and the Lumbago --A Moral Pauper--Limited Smoking--Remittance-men. [5]
- When it comes to that, the best man, not exactly in the moral sense, but rather in the material, and more especially the muscular point of view, is very apt to have the best of it, irrespectively of the merits of the case. [6]
- But we've got to submit--on moral grounds. [5]
- It is equivalent to saying that there is no moral law; or, if there is, nobody can define it. [9]
- He immediately begins to put out his moral feelers into the unknown and the infinite to discover what sort of an existence this is into which he has come. [4]
- Men live up to or live down to their clothes, which have a great moral influence on manner, and even on conduct. [4]
- One gentleman objected to it strongly, as calculated to do moral harm, and regretted that a man having so great an influence over the tone of thought of the day, as Thackeray, should not more carefully weigh his words. [14]
- Now, in regard to his reminding me of the moral rule that persons who tell what they do not know to be true falsify as much as those who knowingly tell falsehoods. [7]
- Women, however, seem to find that kind of thing a moral necessity. [11]
- It is easy to define this sort of untruthfulness, and to study the moral deterioration it works in personal character, and in the quality of literary work. [4]
- And this seems to be the old moral which we draw from our fable, read it how or where you will, that we cannot make one good stroke until we can make every possible stroke; and when we can one, every one seems superfluous. [6]
- The town appears to be perfectly quiet at present, as though the late stormy times had cleared our moral atmosphere; but who can tell in what quarter clouds are lowering or plots ripening? [5]
- For the first time in her life she was face to face with moral problems--the beginning of sorrow, of knowledge, and of life. [11]
- These justifications release those who produce the events from moral responsibility. [2]
- He was so thorough and uncompromising in nature, so strong in moral fibre, that I felt his sarcasm would be too outspoken for me just at present. [11]
- It is not this society which has produced the great moral revolution which the age exhibits. [7]
- Having given him this piece of moral advice for his trouble (which, as he wisely observed, was far better than half-pence) the Perpetual Grand Master of the Glorious Apollos thrust his hands into his pockets and sauntered away: still pondering as he went. [12]
- The enthusiasm of this philosopher has grown with his years, and outlived his endurance: we carried our own knapsacks and supplies, therefore, and drew upon him for nothing but moral reflections and a general knowledge of the wilderness. [4]
- And we ask this not for the sake of the moral lesson, but because not to do it is, to our deep consciousness, inartistic and untrue to our judgment of life as it goes on. [4]
- The moral in this is perfectly clear, and I think there's one in they next memory I'm going to tell you about. [5]
- If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. [5]
- I cannot but think that Judas Iscariot has been of great service to the world as a sort of buffer for moral indignation which might have made a collision nearer home but for his utilized treachery. [4]
- The Republican party think it wrong; we think it is a moral, a social, and a political wrong. [7]
- On that day they see no company; they deny the kiss of greeting to the dearest friend; they retire within themselves, and hold communion with one of the most pungent and penetrating manifestations of the moral vegetable world. [4]
- They are insincere, they are the ugly and appropriate outward exposure of an inward sham and a moral decay. [5]
- Opposed to both these parties is the ultramontane, the head of which is the Romish hierarchy, and the body of which is the inert mass of ignorant peasantry, over whom the influence of the clergy seems little shaken by any of the modern moral earthquakes. [4]
- During this period there was at the North, and especially in the East, great intellectual activity and agitation, and agitation ethical and moral as well as intellectual. [4]
- Do you think there may be predispositions, inherited or ingrafted, but at any rate constitutional, which shall take out certain apparently voluntary determinations from the control of the will, and leave them as free from moral responsibility as the instincts of the lower animals? [6]
- The fact is, there is a spirit of moral perversity in the plant, which makes it grow the more, the more it is interfered with. [4]
- People hold up their hands at a moral monster as if there was no reason for his existence but his own choice. [6]
- He can reduce the valleys and the show "freaks" of nature to his own moral level, but the vast bulks and the summits remain for the most part haughty and pure. [4]
- Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. [7]
- This confirmation of the theologic theory is startling, and sets me meditating upon the moral possibilities of my garden. [4]
- The moral of the tale was to be kindness to animals. [4]
- No matter what the subject might be, a brain-racking effort was made to squirm it into some aspect or other that the moral and religious mind could contemplate with edification. [5]
- Turning now to the social and moral faculties. [1]
- You see, David the Saadat is great on moral suasion--he's a master of it; and he's never failed yet--not altogether; though there have been minutes by a stop-watch when I've thought it wouldn't stand the strain. [11]
- Every one knows the renovation of feeling--often mistaken for a moral renewal--when the worn dress of the day is exchanged for the fresh evening toilet. [4]
- He lived on the plane of the impulses and intellect, discarded as inhibiting factors what are called moral standards, decried individual discipline and restraint. [9]
- The weeds, on the other hand, have hateful moral qualities. [4]
- Will you repeat the old experiment of a material success and a moral and spiritual failure? [4]
- They haven't got the Moral Sense; we have it, and it lifts us immeasurably above them. [5]
- And man has the Moral Sense. [5]
- In regard to the moral qualities, some elimination of the worst dispositions is always in progress even in the most civilised nations. [1]
- The development of the moral qualities is a more interesting problem. [1]
- He has detected the moral of the Stout Gentleman with that air of whimsical significance so natural to him. [4]
- There was always the moral necessity, of course--but then! [11]
- She thinks it's the moral aspect, but it's really the revolutionary aspect, the menace to those precious institutions from which we derive our privileges and comforts. [9]
- They had not the means, intellectual or moral, of feeling as she fancied. [8]
- This disposes of the last remnant of his reputation and wholly destroys his main usefulness as a moral agent, since it will make the sluggard hesitate to go to him any more. [5]
- You would divest the impressive drop of water on the mountain summit, which might go to the Atlantic or to the Pacific, of all moral character by saying that it makes no difference which ocean it falls into. [4]
- That comes under the head of the Moral Sense. [5]
- It requires, in the first place, an entire new terminology to get rid of that enormous load of prejudices with which every term applied to the malformations, the functional disturbances, and the organic diseases of the moral nature is at present burdened. [6]
- You are on the broad road which leads to dissipation, physical ruin, moral decay, gory crime and the gallows! [5]
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