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Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,
Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
