Quotations on Vice | Quotations: 14 | Pages: 2
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) |
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. |
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by John Dryden
(August 9, 1631 - May 1, 1700) |
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. |
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) |
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. |
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by Thornton Wilder
(April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975) |
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who' ... |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot And all things turns to fair that eyes can see! |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice. " |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. |
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by Aristophanes
(~ 445 BC - 385 BC) |
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. |
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by Edmund Burke
(January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) |
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. |
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