Quotes with sin-concealing

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  • Baruch Spinoza Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bertrand Russell Sin is geographical.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bill Hybels Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • André Gide Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Henry Miller Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Eric Butterworth SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Ben Stein So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • William Shakespeare Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oscar Wilde Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
    The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Cecil J. Sharpe The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.
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  • Seneca The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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