Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) read more

If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.

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."

Chastity - you can carry it too far

Chastity - you can carry it too far

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.