moralize

• A few sources of hope: We ought to try to re-moralize work. —  Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom
• I would moralize, but time—and my companions are coming in. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
• If there is any good in an autobiography it ought to be as an example or a warning to others; so at the risk of seeming to moralize, which, however, is far from my intention, I will say something in this place about my manner of life in those days. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
• For one, any opportunity to moralize is an instant cure for writer's block.
• We have a history, a complication of incidents to relate that caused certain effects to develope themselves, and it is our only aim to cause others to moralize--to lead inquiring minds into certain directions by revealing something of the heretofore unwritten past The next morning Howe and the chief returned to the temple, as they called the building on the elevation, and scraping the accumulated mass of rubbish from the floor swept it with a broom made by tying the twigs of hemlock on a long stick. —  The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West

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