Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
--SHAKESPEARE.
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice, than to
drunkenness: for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a
drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.--SIR WALTER
RALEIGH.
Man has evil as well as good qualities peculiar to himself.
Drunkenness places him as much below the level of the brutes as reason
elevates him above them.--SIR G. SINCLAIR.
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of
disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other
vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties,
the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this
makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all
vice.--QUARLES.
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly
caused by strong drink.--JUDGE COLERIDGE.
Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee; where
drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, God
an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are
proclamations.--QUARLES.
DUTY.--Duty grows everywhere, like children, like grass.--EMERSON.
Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.--HANNAH MORE.
The people of this country have shown by the highest proofs human
nature can give, that wherever the path of duty and honor may lead,
however steep and rugged it may be, they are ready to walk in
it.
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