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And lash the vice and follies of the age. - Mrs. Susannah Centlivre And last the Vice and Follies of the Age. - Mrs. Susannah Centlivre, Prologue to The Man's Bewitched This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. - Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (l. 137) He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little farther, and try to plant in a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labor to renew. - Charles Caleb Colton So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. - Charles Caleb Colton Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. - Charles Caleb Colton Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains. - Charles Caleb Colton Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. - William Cowper Vice in its own pure native ugliness. - George Crabbe Vice is its own reward. - Quentin Crisp We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. - Denis Diderot The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. - Laertius Diogenes No vice so great, but we can kill And conquer it, if we but will. - Charles Nelson Douglas Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression. - Owen Felltham (Feltham) Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety. - John William Fletcher Let thy vices die before thee. - Benjamin Franklin Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask. - Benjamin Franklin Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. - Benjamin Franklin What maintains one vice would bring up two children. - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. - Oliver Goldsmith One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. - Thomas Gray Vices are seldom single. - Robert Hall Vice is the greatest of all Jacobins, the archlevellor. - Augustus William Hare Displaying page 2 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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