Quotes with sin-we

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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.
    Source: 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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  • Walter Lippmann There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Boyle Roche There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no sin except stupidity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
    Source: ULTIMATE Collection of Rudyard Kipling (2015) 474
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Khaled Hosseini There is only one sin and that is theft.
    Source: The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Cyril Connolly Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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