Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Heart Quotes, Vices Quotes

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

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The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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

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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

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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.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

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