The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Horace (bk. II, ep. II, l. 216)
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Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Quotes , Source: Epistles (97)
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Lear (Edgar at V, iii)
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There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,
Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i)
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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!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Sonnet XCV
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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Hosea Ballou
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
Bret Harte
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If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
Junius
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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's the benefactor of the whole city.
Thornton Wilder
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