"It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer."
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"What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors."
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"It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy."
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"Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment."
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"The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices."
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"I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life."
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"There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep."
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"The virtues of society are the vices of the saints."
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"The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit."
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"Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues."
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"True enjoyments also keep people from vice."
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"Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion."
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"Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly"
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"I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president."
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"Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical."
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"The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them."
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"If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle."
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"Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)"
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"Men love their vices and hate them at the same time."
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"Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore."
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