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Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
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.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
