Quotes with sin-concealing

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  • Thomas Carlyle The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Seneca The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Henry Lewis Stimson The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
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  • Ogden Nash The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Iris Murdoch The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Winston Churchill The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carson McCullers The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Lester Bangs The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Paula Poundstone The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice.''
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Mark Twain There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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