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A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of read more
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De read more
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over read more
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's read more
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
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.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
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.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
