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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we read more
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without 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.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
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.
