| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Saints |
| | | As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned out saints. Colton. | 1 |
| | For virtues self may too much zeal be had; |
| The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. |
Pope. | 2 |
| | But jest apart what virtue canst thou trace |
| In that broad brim that hides thy sober face? |
| Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice |
| And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice? |
| Then for thine accentwhat in sound can be |
| So void of grace as dull monotony? |
Crabbe. | 3 |
| | In the wicked theres no vice, |
| Of which the saints have not a spice, |
| And yet that thing thats pious in |
| The one, in the other is a sin. |
| Is it not ridiculous, and nonsense, |
| A saint should be a slave to conscience? |
Butler. | 4 | | |
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