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Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around read more
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.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
