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Vice Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
- The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
- Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
- I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole…
- The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
- Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
- Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,…
- Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE,…
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- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln
- Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare
- As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon
- We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau
- Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it. — Edgar Degas
- The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland;… — W. C. Sellar