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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single read more
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single virtue.
Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
