Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)
Topic
Spinoza's claim that happiness is virtue itself — not its reward — is the philosophical anchor. Blake's Jesus acts from impulse rather than rules, which is either a description of perfect virtue or a warning against mistaking spontaneity for it. Addison places virtue above knowledge as the thing that raises one person above another. La Rochefoucauld is bleakly honest about few people knowing how to be old well. Ingersoll: common sense without education beats education without common sense. The recurring question is whether virtue is taught, practiced into being, or simply recognized when it appears. The collection is skeptical of virtue that announces itself and attentive to the kind visible only in sustained action.
Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules
There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.