“ I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. - Don Quixote. ”
- Don Quixote- Copy
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“ Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. ”
- Ivy Compton Burnett- Copy
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“ We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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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. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ Vices are of two kinds, the beastly and the devilish. By his beastly vices, man puts himself below the beasts; the devilish vices have a degree of wickedness that goes far beyond the human. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars. ”
- Gretel Ehrlich- Copy
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“ Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
- 198
“ The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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“ The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ 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! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. ”
- Oliver Cromwell- Copy
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“ The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. ”
- Elizabeth Bowen- Copy
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