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Vices Quotes by Anonymous

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A tattered coat can hide small vices that whisper from the shadows. Anonymous verses talk about the grip of temptation, the role of shame in stopping good deeds, and how ambition can turn into deviant behavior. They also draw a line between personal and professional life.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

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Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

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Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

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We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

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Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing…

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Let's give up our worst vices with the understanding that in about a month we'll indulge them with twice the fervor.

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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

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Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not…

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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices…

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I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of…

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“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us…

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Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent…

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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe…

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My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did…

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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a…

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Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It…

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The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland;…

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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest…

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When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other…

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The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent…

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The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According…

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“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the…

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We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits…

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“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding…

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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he…

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There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time…

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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

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“There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.”

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A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

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All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

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“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible, otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed…

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Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love…

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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

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