No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
quote by Charles Caleb Colton
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No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
quote by Charles Caleb Colton
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body’s Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
poem by Paul Eluard
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
quote by Denis Diderot
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Nature, Trust, beauty and Affection
Give me Nature, my dog,
My parrokeets…
For company as I grow older
And more feeble
For I find their company
much more pleasant to keep
Far more preferable than
The company of people
poem by David Whalen
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Death Is Not A Disease
Death is not a disease
It is not contagious
It should not constrict you to breathe
Yet it is a topic many people favour
To die you must live
To live you must die
Then there is survive
When men live the lie
Death is not a disease
Death is a hunter like a cat
We do not catch is as it releases us
Death is death and that is that
poem by Ethan Wilson
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People
People
Have many
Virtues
And vices.
I have too ;)
I have many
Virtues but
My only
Vice is you
Though I
Don't feel
Guilty,
Indulging
In you ;)
poem by Aparna Chatterjee
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Sonnet- You Can't Have Opposites
When vices, virtues are but parallel lines,
The former moves backward, latter forward;
No one can take the mixture of such wines;
No one can be both fish and also bird.
There isn't a hybrid of vices, virtues;
There isn't a place where both of them can meet;
Just one and only one, a man must choose;
You can't have Heaven's joy and Hell's great heat!
The virtuous way is like climbing a hill;
The road to vice is like slipping from one;
While God rewards Heaven as former's bill,
The latter, yields hell's eternal fire-den!
One can't be both a good and bad a man;
You try to have Heaven and hell, how can?
poem by John Celes
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Contagion
Elephants are contagious!
Be careful how you tread.
An Elephant that's been trodden on
Should be confined to bed!
Leopards are contagious too.
Be careful tiny tots.
They don't give you a temperature
But lots and lots - of spots.
The Herring is a lucky fish
From all disease inured.
Should he be ill when caught at sea;
Immediately - he's cured!
poem by Spike Milligan
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Sonnet: The Righteous Succeed Anyday
An honest man gets into trouble soon;
Hard labor makes a man weary with ease;
Yet, Honesty will always be a boon,
Though troubles keep coming and may not cease.
In world so bad, virtues are hard to keep,
While vices catch all persons with great ease;
Nevertheless, there is nothing to weep;
The Tempter too, its labor will not cease.
Then, how the Righteous cope on earth somehow?
'Tis God who guides and protects them from harm;
For upright men, so great is Maker's love;
His heart's a furnace of love truly warm.
The man of virtues yet sees success fast;
He needn't worry of future or the past.
poem by John Celes
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In a choice between bad company and loneliness -- the second is preferable.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
quote by Ashley Montagu
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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
quote by Winston Churchill
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
quote by Abraham Lincoln
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
quote by Charles Dickens
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
quote by Winston Churchill
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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