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Vices 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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